It is an evening in October 1989. A five-year-old boy (Thor Ochsner) is on his way to pick up his mom at the airport. His father is driving the car, it is raining and the windscreen wipers move back and forth. All of a sudden a car accident happens – and the five-year-old Thor is left alone, and has to figure out what to do. 1989 (when I was 5 years old) is a short animated documentary reconstructing the traumatic memories of a car accident that the director experienced when he was 5 years old.