A lonely man makes calls to automated call services and anonymous strangers as he searches for comfort in the hollow telephone conversations he shares with answering machine.

An anxious young woman wondering why her love interest isn't calling her and agonizes over what would happen if she called him.

Beginning and concluding with the sound of a ringing phone, this story follows a man as he navigates unwelcome interactions and the lull of newly-unemployed life.

When a couple buys a new radio, the wife becomes obsessed with its ability to catch conversations of their neighbors private lives.

New in town, a young woman receives strange phone calls from a voice telling her she is going to die. When she meets the source of the voice, she is convinced that the calls were a prank until she is proven wrong in the middle of the night.

A co-worker gives a new staff member an introductory tour of the office, while providing small gossip about other employees along the way.

A scientist who specializes in neurolinguistic computing built an ASL translation system to more easily video-call with her deaf sister, who is an avian conservationist. When one of her birds accidentally gets online with the scientist's children, the scientist discovers that her translation software can give a voice to animals too.