Barocco

On a dark, rainy night an old, white man is visited by a young, black stranger asking to use the telephone. After making his call, the young man...

The age-old battle between man and answering machine wages on as John attempts to record the perfect outgoing message.

A 911 dispatcher helps a lost and surprisingly upbeat woman in a compromising situation and connects with more than just the call.

Irene Wagner, the wife of the prominent German scientist Professor Albert Wagner, had been having an affair with Erich Baumann. She does not disclose...

Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice....

When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.

Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. During a lonely night shift, a woman calls up and tells Alan that she needs to...

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

Trapped in the swirling thoughts of a late night shift, a restaurant worker receives a cryptic phone call, guiding her to a refuge from the noise.

Two different but strangely complementary young women living together are pictured in a fragmented and non-linear narrative about incommunicability...

A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have...