Your phone buzzes. It's you. And you're in love with yourself.
A young, beautiful, well-off but lonely woman starts receiving mysterious SMS messages on her phone. No, she is not threatened in any way, on the contrary - an unknown man confesses his love. A short and independent investigation shows her that none of the habitual and familiar cavaliers is simply not capable of such a thing. To talk to a stranger is not possible - "the called subscriber is switched off or is not in the network coverage area". After another "letter" she is not quite legally trying to find out who owns the phone with a number that never answers. The result is disappointing - the handset is registered in her name. Then she decides to send a reply SMS message and gets a reply....
Writing
Twisted premise executed with bleak precision
Production
Crushing atmosphere of 2009 mobile anxiety
Director
Anton Azarov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
2009 Russian indie cinema obsessed with mobile technology as both connection and prison—this predates Black Mirror's 'Be Right Back' by four years.
Director Anton Azarov never made another feature; this vanished into festival obscurity despite its prescient dread about digital identities.
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