Psychiatry in France today is being swept by a medical tide. There is a wish to strip down emotions and psychic dysfunctions to mere alterations of the brain or its functioning, modelled on other medical disciplines. The mentally ill are turned into objects of science to be “repaired” and brought back into the social system. The most severe cases are understood only in terms of how dangerous they are, or how costly to society. Mental illness is medicalized to keep it at arm’s length, we would rather neither see, nor hear the unique stories of individuals to avoid listening to them, even going as far as denying them the right to emotions, desires, and their own unconscious life. This implicitly reveals society’s relationship today with mental illness, and how the “madman” is increasingly pushed out and stigmatized. The film takes us firstly into the reality of psychiatry, into the emergency room and the psychiatric ward of a public hospital, with its lack of resources and ever-growing influx of patients, and secondly into a private clinic, where in its wards patients are selected according to their illnesses and financial means. Its purpose is to observe how the mentally ill are treated today: those with severe conditions and those suffering from psychosocial disorders, the wealthy and the poor. It also examines the work of the psychiatrists who care for them, looking into which therapeutic assumptions they rely on.