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You're a taxi driver in Dakar. One night in December, around midnight, you see a scene that ices your blood: the son of the Minister of the Interior fatally strikes a travelling salesman in an alley of the Medina. You're the only witness. The victim died instantly.
The police found you. The DA is asking you to testify. But in the next few days, you get anonymous threats. Your brother is summoned for no reason to the offices of the General Intelligence Directorate. Your owner will notify you of an expulsion.
The message is clear: if you speak, your life will be systematically destroyed. If you are silent, a murderer remains free, a family will never know what happened to his son, and justice becomes a privilege reserved for the powerful.
What do you choose?
- Witness : take the risk, tell the truth, and trust — Maybe wrong. — the judicial institution.
- Silence : to protect yours, to survive, and to live with the memory of a dead man whom no one avenges.
Two logics clash: justice as an absolute moral duty, or survival as a primary responsibility towards those we love.
