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Vendetta is raging in Albania. In the name of a medieval law that comes straight from the mountains, the Kanun, thousands of families are condemned to go underground. Children remain cloistered for years without going to school, men cannot go to work, under penalty of being killed. This code of values from another age, forgotten, forbidden during the time of communism, authorizes murder and imposes vengeance even on children. It is the law of blood. The only one respected by Albanians who no longer have confidence in their State and their institutions. It forces little boys like Alfred, 13, or young men like Pietri, 24, to live barricaded behind high gray walls. In all the cities of the country, there are neighborhoods of the walled. A third of the Albanian population is affected directly or indirectly by the Kanun. It is a question of honor and honor has a price in Albania: the price of blood. First broadcast on 11/27/2008 A film by Angélique Kourounis