THE ART OF IVANOVICH

A new juvenile rehabilitation program has been implemented in major cities: young offenders now serve part of their sentences in tight, flashy latex suits that display the phrase “COMMUNITY SERVICE,” collecting trash along the roadsides. The goal is twofold — to clean up the city and to confront the delinquents with the visible consequences of their actions. Among the participants is Erik, an introspective young man who barely looks up while he works. Next to him, Julian, more rebellious, feigns contempt, but is already beginning to feel the strange peace of manual labor under the sun. As the weeks go by, the routine changes the group. The tight, body-hugging uniforms that they expose to the public, which used to cause shame, now symbolize silent resistance and collective effort. Erik and Julian, once strangers, become accomplices in a new kind of understanding: far from punishment, they find in the task a chance for a new beginning. Between garbage bags and silence, the outline of a f...