9999

In the land of the blind I am the oneeyed king says Wilfried This country is in prison Merksplas and the blind they are the internees The only thing they have in common is their date of release 31129999 This film tells the story of some mentally ill criminals not being held responsible for their actions but still locked down Without treatment and without an end date 9999 descends into the limbo of Belgium and looks some internees who are pining away in a prison straight in the eye The film disappears under lock and key where time loses all common sense and tells us of an unreal injustice We end up in a narrow world where imagination is obliged to transcend reality and we wander through landscapes of senses of men on the edge of society