After the Tunisian revolution of 2011, 4 railway workers were assigned to line No. 1. They nicknamed it “The Normal Way” because it was the first railway in the country and the only one built according to international standards. It is also the most neglected on the network, and nothing ever goes as planned. Son and grandson of a railway worker, AHMED (34) decided late in life to join the SNCFT. With his hands in the machine, with the means at hand, he learned his trade on the job alongside the train drivers.FITATI (39 years old), one of them, has been documenting for years all the technical failures of the railway network and trains, even if it means attracting the wrath of his superiors, who always refuse him tenure, and making his wife despair of ever having a “normal” life. Crossing the green landscapes of the North, the old locomotive must without ceases to be patched up. At his command, the drivers overcome fear each in their own way. Every day, AHMED becomes a little more aware of the precariousness of the conditions in which he must hold his position. Night trains, delays, stations without heating even in winter, not to mention the deadly accidents that no driver can avoid: although the pride of the corporation remains, the world of the Voie Normale railway workers is rock'n roll to say the least. Not far away, Najib the station manager (45), silently adapting to his celibacy, watches time pass by tirelessly directing the trains. Seeming to be the only one to refuse fate, FITATI persists in making his evidence public and drawing the attention of the media to the risks faced by users and railway workers. Fitati is transferred to ticket sales. When two serious train accidents occur, suddenly stirring public opinion, TV shows now relay his denunciations. But too late: FITATi is fired. A cross-portrait of Tunisian railway workers, La Voie Normale is a poetic and social road movie about work as a metaphor for a changing society.