Call center plays the center in this multi-level love stories. Call center staff - Tom and Lane - are best friends, but they are lovers in denial. Tom's bestfriend, Jepoi, is a call center instructor who is in love with a 40-year-old professor, Cyrill. Their May-December love affair is hampered by the dictates of a prejudiced society. Wannabe rockstar, the boyish chic Tonee, is clueless about the growing affection of Ryan, a fellow call center trainee. The group fashionista, Bry, is an aspiring model who unexpectedly found love with a cab driver, Axel.
Acting
JC de Vera's instructor-with-a-crush energy is devastatingly specific.
Production
2008 call center aesthetic: headsets, fluorescent lights, broken dreams.
Writing
Four interwoven plots that actually intersect without collapsing.
Director
Don Cuaresma
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peak 2000s Philippine cinema obsession with call centers as symbols of globalization and deferred dreams—this was aspirational workplace fantasy before BPO burnout became discourse.
Aljur Abrenica and Kris Bernal were real-life StarStruck winners paired here early in their careers—their awkward chemistry was partly manufactured by actual industry pressure.
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