Domestic abuse can happen anywhere at any time. The question becomes: Will a bystander witnessing violence between two intimate partners step in and take action? The Swedish organization STHLM Panda decided to answer that question by conducting a “social experiment” in which two actors simulated a scene of domestic abuse to see how people would react. Sadly, out of 53 people who bore witness to the violence, only one took it upon herself to intervene.

While the male actor berates and seems to physically abuse the female actor, onlookers in a close quarter elevator decide to stay out of the couple’s business. One by one, the witnesses take notice of the feigned domestic abuse before exiting the elevator. One woman even seems more worried about herself by saying, “I’m here, too. Please let me get off first.” Another woman finally takes action by telling the male actor, “I’m gonna call the police if you touch her again.”

“We made this video to test domestic violence and violence in close relations and to see if people react when they really need to,” Konrad Ydhage, one of the actors in the video, told The Guardian. “We were expecting that about 50 percent would intervene. I was prepared to take a hit by the bigger lads who entered the lift. But, sadly enough, they walked out on the girl.”

At the end of the video, a message reads: “Every 20 minutes a woman in Sweden is abused.” According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 20 people in the United States fall victim to domestic violence at the hands of their intimate partner every minute. One out of every two women and one out of every five men have been the victim of sexual violence other than rape at some point in their lives.