“It’s surely one of life’s great pleasures to turn yourself over to a master of suspense. This utterly gripping film from director Gustav Möller is set entirely inside the emergency dispatch room of a Copenhagen police station, where officer Asger Holm, about to leave for the day, gets a call from a kidnap victim—and is abruptly cut off. Using the sparest of storytelling tools, from a brilliant soundscape of electronic and live conversation, rings, buzzes, and cell tower pings, to screen images of maps, police records, security footage, and tracking technology, Möller takes the viewer inside Holm’s heightened senses (and troubled psyche) to piece together the clues to the victim’s whereabouts before it’s too late.” — Kathy Bonomi, Programmer

When police officer Asger Holm (Jakob Cedergren) is demoted to desk work, he expects a sleepy beat as an emergency dispatcher. That all changes when he answers a panicked phone call from a kidnapped woman who then disconnects abruptly. Asger, confined to the police station, is forced to use others as his eyes and ears as the severity of the crime slowly becomes more clear. The search to find the missing woman and her assailant will take every bit of his intuition and skill, as a ticking clock and his own personal demons conspire against him. This innovative and unrelenting Danish thriller uses a single location to great effect, ratcheting up the tension as twists pile up and secrets are revealed. Director Gustav Möller expertly frames the increasingly messy proceedings against the clean Scandinavian sterility of the police department, while Cedergren’s strong performance anchors the film and places the audience squarely in Holm’s tragically flawed, yet well-intentioned, mindspace.