Benghazi in February 2011 becomes the starting point of the Libyan uprising, and this film traces how it began with a small protest over the arrest of a human rights lawyer representing families of prisoners killed in the 1996 Abu Salim massacre. Residents of the city describe, in their own words, what it meant to live under Muammar Gaddafi's decades-long security apparatus, where informants and secret police made open dissent nearly unthinkable. The film follows how that single protest over one lawyer's detention grew within days into a citywide revolt, with unarmed crowds facing down police stations and security forces across Benghazi. Personal accounts carry most of the film, from people who took part in the early demonstrations to those who watched neighbors disappear into Gaddafi's prisons years earlier. The focus stays local and specific: one city, one arrest, one chain of events that turned into the opening chapter of Libya's civil war. It is a ground-level account of how a police state cracked open in a matter of days.