Umut Vedat Gayretli / fiction/ Estonia/ 2021/ 15'

Locked (Lukus)

Rea is in the middle of a messy divorce from Sten, who has frequently threatened to kidnap their daughter. After a thoughtless night with her new lover, she is suddenly called to fetch her child from the kindergarten - he has taken ill. Already worried, Rea is exasperated at finding herself locked into her lover’s apartment. She can’t get a hold of the man and must make some embarrassing confessions in a string of phone calls in order to escape, making a startling discovery about her new man in the process. She finally makes it to her baby and learns that her lover turns out to be a police officer on her husband’s case.