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Ilya, jailed seven years ago on a false drug charge, comes out and finds nothing to return to. When he runs into the narcotics officer who put him inside, it ends accidentally in death. Ilya takes the man's phone and begins reading his life, his messages and his family from the inside. Klim Shipenko directed, from Dmitry Glukhovsky's novel, adapted by the author himself. Alexander Petrov, Ivan Yankovsky and Kristina Asmus star. The phone is the idea. Ilya enters the dead man's identity through messages, writing to his family, stalling his girlfriend, keeping his job running. The on-screen conversations are part of the film's visual language. It begins like a revenge story and goes somewhere else: reading a life this closely makes hating it harder. It did well in Russia and won four Golden Eagle awards. The tone is dark and the ending offers no relief. Who it is for: viewers who like modern Russian cinema and thrillers built on digital identity. Who it is not for: anyone looking for hope; the story is about a man cornered from the start.