Dans la peau d'un éducateur

Looking after young delinquents is a skill one needs to learn. For 2 years, Yoann, Seb and Alice are studying to become 'educateurs' case workers for the Youth Justice Department, administering decisions made by the court. They are learning that to take care of troubled teenagers often means being confronted with violence and suffering on a daily basis. It also means coming to terms with themselves, making decisions as to how to maintain the right distance and perspective, despite only being a few years older than the young people they are looking after. The results are often hard to assess but are none the less very real. At a moment, when in France, there is an increasing call for harsher penalties and more imprisonment, when a new kind of juvenile prisons are being opened across the country, the three 'educateurs' have chosen to believe that the answer is education rather than punishment.