They turned off the power, planted the door and let the dog out. They treated the tenants like animals, it was perverse, says Hlaváček
Poverty traffickers know that these people are easily exploitable. So they demand much more money than is normally paid for housing. At the same time, it works so that when someone moves in, they also sign their eviction papers in advance,” says the documentary’s director. The film captures the functioning of the Kuncovka hostel in Brno. “We wanted to show people how it really works there. These are the places that are the most horrible phenomena of housing distress, but the public doesn’t get to go there. It shows that some things can’t be solved by the market, and that when the state takes its hands off this stuff, it doesn’t pay off.”