Misfortune Level 2 (Malheur niveau 2)

“In 2020, during lockdown, I began to develop a sort of OCD, a compulsion to record everything around me. A few months later, my mental health deteriorated, and I checked in to a psych ward. I really had no idea that, there, my OCD would become a group podcast project.” Taped in the clinic where Violette is hospitalized, this documentary is a radio deep-dive in the lives of mental patients. Their first-person accounts question the stereotypes and clichés often associated with madness, and encourage us to reconsider the very notion of vulnerability. Edited from around thirty hours of recordings, the ensemble storytelling incites reflection on questions of tolerance, mental health and medical institutions.