In a floor of an old building in the middle of Freiburg, people regularly meet to exchange ideas at the "Lunch Table" and in the "Club 55" of the Freiburger Hilfsgemeinschaft, the second oldest institution for mentally ill people in Germany. Most of the visitors have been in and out of psychiatric care for decades. They speak with impressive openness about their experiences there, about life with a mental illness, their everyday life and their often precarious living situation.