#documentary #donovan #español

Donovan is a “forensic cleaner” in Mexico City. A vocation he has carried for 20 years that fleetingly binds him to victims’ families

Sealed from head to toe in a white ‘hazmat’ suit, hands gloved to the elbows, a respirator covering his entire face; Donovan is at work.

“Forensic cleaning means removal of blood, bone fragments, skin, maggots, flies – everything that a dead body leaves behind. Everything has to disappear by the time I leave”, he explains.

With his long ‘salt-and-pepper’ hair tied up in a ponytail, and his perfectly pressed suit, Donovan cleans crime scenes in Mexico; a vocation he has carried for 20 years, a craft that he has mastered all by himself through the books he has read.

Bereaved families call on his services to clean a bedroom, a lounge, a kitchen, a bathroom. So, like a kind of benevolent phantom, Donovan passes through their lives, allowing them to reconnect with the home and possessions of their loved one, and to properly start to grieve.

“Everytime I leave, the atmosphere lifts”, he says.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAd1za9H6oU