“Living together” – something so important in modern society that it is in everyone’s vernacular. Apartment blocks, shared ownership, neighbours …. relationships turn sour and the adversaries continue to live together. Anne Levy-Morelle observes a Justice of the Peace, their clerks and the mediators in Brussels’s neighbourhoods. Their task: to diffuse explosive situations, which from the outside may seem trivial, but which are unbearable for those affected on a daily basis.