A young man is captured and imprisoned in a room where there is a red button. He is requested
to push it if he wants to come back home, but what if he decides not to do it?
A young MAN, with a bruised face, is packing some clothes fast whereas his father is shouting at him and asking for the young man ́s mother behind the door and trying to burst into the room. The young man picks up his rucksack, camera and tripod and escapes through the window.
He arrives to a pedestrian crossing, pushes the button of the traffic light and waits until it turns into green. Shortly after that, he is taking a picture of himself into an empty trash bin that is knocked over on the ground. Suddenly, someone punches his head, and the young man faints.
A female VOICE awakes the young man. He is lying on a bed with his hands and legs cuffed. He struggles to free himself and get out of there, but there is no way out. The room is minimalist, only stands out a red button. The voice and a middle-aged WOMAN, who comes into the room every now and again, try to convince him to push the button in order to get back home.
But the young man wants to know why he should do it. The middle-aged woman is surprised by his reaction, because the people that are kept in that place, always push the button without any question. Neither the middle-aged woman, nor the sensual female voice answer any of his questions.
Some time later, the middle-aged woman walks again into the room and tries to make him understand that he is not trapped there, he only has to make the decision of pushing the button. Due to his refusal, she puts him between a rock and a hard place. She turns a TV on where his mother appears sitting on a chair with covered up eyes. The young man protests and try to catch the woman, but without success. The woman launches an ultimatum: he will have to choose between to push the button and get his freedom, but his mother will die or to not press it and her mother will be released, but he will have to be there locked up forever. The young man looks at the button and after that, his reflection in the window.
The button on a traffic light turns red and then green over and over.
Style and audience
This psychological drama tends to provoke in the audience a sense of frustration and inconvenience in order to reflect on our society. It attempts to engage young adults and adults with questions and curiosity. The tone transmits a sense of isolation and emptiness, similar to 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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