May 13, 2020. Oussema, the sound engineer at inkyfada, is finishing the final details of the fifth episode of the series "Where were you on January 14?". There, inbetween a couple of final adjustments, he begins to recall his own story of January 14.

The demonstrations that led up to it, the increasing awareness of the dangers involved, the adrenalin of the struggle and the solidarity between comrades - everything converged against a single enemy: the Police, a.k.a. the armed right hand of the already fragile system. 

Oussema recalls a day, shortly after the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi on December 17 2010. Social media networks were exploading, new pages were created to relay information that the regime was trying to hide.

The first calls to demonstrate on January 14 were launched by a group of bloggers, forcing the Tunisian Labour Union to rally and claim the demonstration. That day, Oussema was on the front line by the Ministry of the Interior, coming face to face with the enemy.

A verbal altercation with two policemen ensued, but was strangely interrupted by one of the officers breaking into tears. Moments later, Tunis was transformed into a battlefield, with lootings, trenches, retreats, victories, wounds and victims. 

The fear of dying was unmistakable. But to die from what? Asphyxiation by tear gas? Being struck by a bullet? A few days earlier, he had witnessed something so unprecedentedly violent: a young man being struck by a bullet and falling straight to the ground.

10 years later, whilst creating this podcast, Oussema realises that what he had witnessed was the death of Helmi Manai, "martyr" of the Tunisian Revolution. 

Being prompted to remember through previous episodes, Oussema finds himself ready to start editing, arranging and mixing his own personal account of January 14.