Prison à domicile

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With France's liberalizing many of his public sectors at the beginning of the 21st Century, such as Justice and Security, the penitentiary system is now fully controlled by multinational companies, which show a lot of ingenuity in cutting corners and profitability improvement. One of their solutions to enable the permanent closure of the penitentiary centers, which are too costly in maintenance, has been to encourage people to become jailers « at home » by turning one room in their home into a prison cell in return for a stipend. At the center of the experiment is Anton Koslowski, a young father hoping to save his crumbling marriage with a stable income, who takes on a prisoner in his own home. The accommodation brings Koslowski to face his own civility, fears and ambitions, which in hand reflects upon the future of a society obsessed by competitiveness and utilitarianism to the detriment of the human being.