Your old computer crashes. You wake up 20 years ago. Do you fix your life or break it worse?
Primo, gifted with a good eye for production design, ventures into the working world with a great desire to succeed. Unprepared for the harsh realities of the real world, Primo experienced failure, heartbreak and regret in a series of unfortunate events. Life didn’t turn out as he had expected: He wasted away, wallowing in grief, and jumped from one odd job to another for more than a decade. While trying to make ends meet at the peak of his misfortunes, he experiences a technological glitch with his old desktop computer and gets a chance to re-write his life.
Production
Evolving production design mirrors Primo's psychic deterioration
Acting
Carlo Aquino's crumbling dignity in every mismatched outfit
Director
Joseph Teoxon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a 2010s wave of Filipino indie films exploring precarious millennial employment, reflecting real economic anxiety under Duterte-era contract labor policies.
The desktop computer functions as a literal 'desktop'—a surface where Primo projects his unprocessed grief, making the glitch both supernatural event and psychological metaphor.
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