The events of the never-ending olive story revolve around the simple Tunisian working cobbler, who follows an old newspaper, which is (Labor), on a day that was blocked from publication and distribution by the French occupation authorities, for political reasons that he knows well of being an anti-colonial activist, and opposes his racist policies, and writes slogans, often Translated graffiti at times, or expressive drawings, such as a house in his black chimney that was replaced by a green olive tree, or thoughts set up in his follow-up to the articles of the great leader Bourguiba.
And in many attempts to reject the temptations of the occupier, by recruiting them on their behalf and selling his patriotism in exchange for employment and money, we see him leaving his village and intending the city in which he was found lost, which is the popular movement and the demonstrations calling for Tunisia's life and the fall of the occupation, and here he met Ahmed, who is one of the organizers of the April 8 demonstration in "Rahba El-Ghanem". "Near the house of the leader, Habib Bourguiba, who invited him to join it, as he got acquainted with the cleaning worker who was also a member of the revolutionary movement, so he was in addition to his work in the street, he was the observer of the movements of the occupation soldiers and his tails, and he also had to transfer information between the militants and distribute the pamphlets Colonialism, which had the greatest impact in sharpening the people's anxiety, and mobilizing it against the occupier, and other simple fighters who are commoners of the Tunisian people, and the shoemaker was invited to join this demonstration, which was a pivotal detail in the contemporary history of Tunisia.
Amid the chanting, the revolutionary leader, Ali Belhawan, was arrested, and he was tried militarily, and the movement's members were arrested after the occupation soldiers shot at the unarmed demonstrators, who in turn responded to the source of the fire by throwing rocks at the soldiers and attacking the occupation tramway bus and sabotaging it, and many fell The victims are between a martyr and a wounded man ... for the author to end his story, based on the strong desire of the cobbler to fall to the ground, and surrender to a deep sleep, where he shed light on historical events that are luminous in the history of Tunisia and its national movements, starting from the Martyrs' Day on April 9, highlighting the role of a newspaper. Work p National resistance, and in refining the awareness of the Liberal and gathering around the political leader.
As for the figure of Al-Iskafi and Ahmed, and other demonstrators and militants, the writer succeeded in bringing down Mohammed al-Arousi al-Mutawi, who likened each of them to a blessed olive extending its branches, and for every role in the Tunisian struggle movement, and extracting its oil, and in a more accurate sense squeezing the lights of the city streets in 1983, in reference to The beginning of the struggle, the spark of the open political movement, its crystallization in the city and its vast spaces, and between its shrinkage, its secrecy and its limitations in the village.
