Letters, photos, a spool of wool, mood swings noted on pieces of paper, the omnipresent mother and climate change. The causes and reasons for imprisonment fade over time, leaving only the substratum of memory.

Is the imprisonment physical or mental? Is it societal isolation that psychologically causes confinement? Is it then that prisoners open up to others, to regrets? regrets and remorse?

Undeniably, the stigma attached to prison can have a contagious effect on the closeness between inmates and even on prison buildings. "Based on the simple question of "how does one live in prison?", Malek Gnaoui attempts to extract the various survival tools used by ex-prisoners, highlighting the disciplines acquired to tame confinement and "cheat winter".

These notebooks of memorial archives reveal a world outside prison, an analogy between the sublimation of trauma and artistic expression." Amal Ben Attia