A security guard, an empty condo, and a phone that shouldn't ring. Paranoia has a new address.
The story evolves around Benjie (Coco Martin), a young security guard who, having lost her girlfriend from another man, has also lost his sense of being. Without a family to lean on, he requests to the building administration to let him stay in guard's quarters of the new condo he was assigned at. The building and the whole new universe of strangers who don't really care about him has become Benjie's refuge. He only cares about his job even if it's only the same old tiring routine. But the perfect and lonely world for him turned out as a contrary when a mysterious intruder and a phone call from an empty unit begin taunting him.
Acting
Coco Martin's silent desperation—he's the whole movie.
Production
The condo itself: sterile, suffocating, brilliantly used as character.
Director
Martin Cabrera
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during the Philippine indie boom, this is early Coco Martin before he became the country's biggest TV star—raw, unglamorous, unforgettable.
The 'condo' represents Manila's exploding middle-class isolation: luxury cages where guards see everything but nobody sees them.
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