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Today in France, 600,000 people are schizophrenic. They live in their own world, totally guided by voices that dominate them. Among these patients, a small number have recently hit the headlines by acting out, always in a spectacular way. Disembowelments, decapitations, throat-slitting, their victims are often part of their family or on the contrary are chosen at random in the street. This is the story of Luc, a 26-year-old student stabbed in the center of Grenoble by a patient who escaped from a hospital. This is the story of parents of sick young adults who live in fear of seeing their children act out one day. This is also the story of Charles, a psychiatric nurse, who lives in constant contact with men and women who look ordinary but behave unpredictably. What should be done with these perpetrators of crimes or offenses that are often extremely violent? Should they be locked up and where? In prison or in high-security hospitals? For how long? Forever? Or should we one day allow them to live among us again? From the ultra-secure world of a unit for dangerous patients to the dilapidated cells of a detention center, via Lille where a team of doctors are trying to reintegrate patients into the city, a journey to the heart of a madness that frightens us. First broadcast on 2/2/2010 A film by Julie Zwobada Claire Lajeunie