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Depicts the environments of a mental hospital, St. Lars in Lund, from the turn of the century until the 1950s when psychotropic drugs were introduced in the treatment of the mentally ill. Filmmaker Ebbe Gilbe captures moments that passed long ago; isolation cells, doors full of marks from kicks and clawed fingers. The inmates' paintings and quotes from their diaries and letters tell of a life of despair.