Tahar is a security officer. Despite his salary and a few bonuses, he has trouble making ends meet, and has had to take out several consumer credit loans. He chose his carreer path out of "necessity" after the revolution, because "there is no work in the country".

It's 6pm, and Nadia is navigating the traffic as fast as she can. She just finished work and picked her daughter up from school, but she has to hurry: two women are expecting her in an hour for a private English class. Between her work, her daughter and her other activities, her day to day life is not easy.

When she was still living in Germany, Marlies could barely afford paying her bills and had to work a minijob to top up her pension. After nine years of struggling financially, she decided to move to Tunisia, hoping that this would improve her situation