Meddö

A 30-year-old travel guide describes Ozd in Nothern Hungary as a “foundry town since 1843, population : 40000”. These days the foundry looks like a dead prehistoric animal in the midst of a sick town where one in two inhabitants is out of work. Tired, forbearing detectives pursue a hopeless battle against thieves who are almost the only people with a regular occupation in a town where all the laws have long been broken by the police themselves and by those they are legislating against. In this town – one of how many? – the council and the police demonstrate the power of law and order by killing unvaccinated and unregistered dogs and evicting people out of squalid apartments into nothingness. A social report from Central Europe – just next door.