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Tayeb ait Ighenbaz was forced to choose whether to save his 11-year-old son or his parents when they became trapped under rubble after Morocco's earthquake struck.
The goat herder from a tiny community in the Atlas Mountains says he is haunted by the decision he had to make.
Tayeb was with his wife, two children and parents on Friday night in their small stone home when it was rocked by the country's biggest earthquake in 60 years.
He leads me to his former home, which now lies in ruins.
You can still see partially inside the building and he points at the rubble, saying: "That's where they were."
"It all happened so quickly. When the earthquake happened we all ran to the door. My dad was sleeping and I shouted at my mum to come, but she stayed behind to wait for him," he recalls.
On the other side, he could see only his wife and daughter.