'9999' daalt af in de vergeetput van onze maatschappij en kijkt er enkele geïnterneerden in de gevangenis van Merksplas recht in de ogen. '9999' verdwijnt mee achter slot en grendel, daar waar de tijd alle redelijkheid verliest, en vertelt over een onwezenlijk onrecht.
Wilfried refers to himself as 'king one-eye in the land of the blind'. This land lays in Merksplas' prison in Belgium and the blind are the internees who reside in the prison without treatment. Mentally ill criminals in Belgium are not held responsible for their actions but become separated from society. There criminal acts range from murder to stabbing fire of a bike. Due to the lack of places in psychiatric hospitals they end up in prison without any possibility for therapy nor end date. Their files mention as date of release: 31/12/9999. 9999 intertwines five different stories of these 'blind.' These men are waiting; for comfort, for hope, for freedom, for change. The time between their prison bars is altogether different from the time outside the prison walls. Time is annihilated. The only thing that remains is an eternal confrontation; a confrontation with their deeds and with their illness. There is nothing else
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