The Drift (2026) Movie Script
1
[soft music]
[pensive music]
[emotional music]
[wind blowing]
[soft music]
- Can I ask you something?
It's a little personal, but
do you ever think about death?
[ice cracking]
[ominous music]
Help!
Hello.
Help!
Hello!
Please, I'm here.
Anyone?
Please.
Help!
[dramatic music]
- And according to reports
just coming in, a young
and internationally-renowned
figure skater has gone missing
on a northern glacier.
The skater, whose name has not
yet been officially released,
was taking part in a promotional
trip with her skating team.
Alongside a photo
shoot, the schedule
also included a survival-style
overnight expedition
on the glacier.
- Sector Charlie scanned.
No visual confirmation.
Beginning approach
to delta zone.
- Copy.
Maintain grid pattern.
Report any anomaly
no matter how small.
[soft music]
- Visibility is fair.
Horizon is clear.
If the target drifted,
currents could have carried
them 20, 30 miles by now.
- Noted.
Stay systematic.
Every sector must be checked.
- Roger.
Adjusting heading 085.
Grid sweep continues.
[helicopter blades chopping]
- No flares detected.
Negative strobe.
Negative heat.
Only ice movement.
- Copy.
Hold your track.
Stay on current bearing.
Stay sharp.
Every minute counts.
- If someone's out here,
they're not making it easy.
- According to sources,
the disappearance
occurred late in the morning.
It remains unclear whether the
skater became lost on the ice
itself, as strong
winds and snowfall
has obscured any tracks.
Another possibility
is that she may
have headed towards
the glacier's edge
and fallen into the
freezing waters.
One of her teammates gave a
brief statement to us earlier.
- I still can't believe it.
She said in the morning that
she needed a moment alone.
- Authorities emphasize
that time is critical.
[dramatic music]
[radio chatter]
- Roger.
Rescue vessel now 10
minutes from glacier base.
Any sightings?
- Negative.
Repeat, negative.
Reflection only.
Ice fragments catching the beam.
Returning to grid track.
- Continue one final sweep,
then prepare to return base.
Confirm fuel status.
- Fuel sufficient
for 30 minutes.
Resuming.
- Copy.
Vessel will check
sector Alpha 9.
[pensive music]
- Come on.
It must be here.
Where is it?
[wind blowing]
[pensive music]
Please, come on.
OK.
Please.
[phone buzzing]
[snow crunching]
[wind whistling]
- (SINGING) Meadow,
meadow, soft and sweet
Nicest thing we've ever seen
Flowers waving in the breeze
Dancing tall with buzzing bees
Hold my hand and laugh with me
Under skies so wild and free
[heavy breathing]
[pensive music]
- Yes!
[fire crackling]
[chuckles]
[dramatic music]
Fuck.
[groans]
Yes.
[pensive music]
[shivering]
[waves roaring]
(SINGING) Dancing
tall with buzzing bees
Meadow, meadow, soft and sweet
Nicest place we've ever seen
[tent flapping]
[dramatic music]
[tent rips]
[yelps]
[grunting]
[shouts]
[waves roaring]
[helicopter blades chopping]
- We've flown grids Alpha
through Foxtrot twice.
If anyone was out
here, yesterday's storm
would have taken them.
Odds are almost zero.
- Copy.
- Request guidance.
Do we extend or return?
- Standby.
Command evaluating termination.
[pensive music]
[inhales deeply]
[wind whistling]
[crickets chirping]
[pensive music]
- [faint nursery rhyme]
[ingressive hiss]
[blows]
- Come on.
Yes.
[blows]
- [giggling]
[pensive music]
[sad music]
[singing nursery rhyme]
[water splashing]
- OK, this has got to work.
[elegant music]
[applause]
[pensive music]
[inspiring music]
There.
[dramatic music]
Please, please.
[shivering]
Goddamn it.
Goddamn.
[shivering]
[ominous music]
[phone buzzing]
Come on.
Hello?
Please, please, please.
Hello?
- Is there somebody there?
Hello?
- Hi.
Hi.
Yes, hi.
Help me.
Hi.
- Yes, I'll help you, and
I'll make your day brilliant.
Am I speaking with Ms. Emily?
- Yes, yes, please send
somebody to help me.
- I'm Harry.
I'm calling from Cool
Breeze Air Conditioners.
With summer around the corner,
we're offering great deals
on our latest models.
- No, no, please listen to me.
I don't need an air conditioner.
I need help.
I'm lost in the middle of the--
- Is there somebody there?
- --Arctic Ocean
somewhere stuck--
- Hello?
- --on this ice floe, and I--
- Really an ice floe?
Wow.
- Yes, really, an ice floe.
I'll send you my
coordinates, OK.
I don't know my coordinates.
- If you're not interested in
my offer, you can just say so.
I don't want to push.
- No, I'm not joking.
- Me neither.
- I was with my team, and
the edge of the glacier fell.
And I woke up here.
And I'm--
- Our eco-friendly air
conditioners are really energy
efficient.
This is the last week--
- No, no, no.
Just please, please just stop
talking about air conditioners.
Please send somebody to help me.
I am begging you.
- All right, ma'am, I got it.
I have other calls to make.
- No.
No, no, no, no.
Don't hang up on me, please.
- Stay cool and have a good day.
- No, please.
[disconnect tone]
Hello?
Hello?
Fuck.
Hello?
Hello.
Fuck.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Please, please, please.
Fuck.
[crying]
- [giggling]
[pensive music]
[rumbling]
[ominous music]
[pensive music]
- Rescue 8842.
Rescue 8842, visual for each--
excuse me, 35 Seven
sector swept again.
Glacier edge is breaking up.
Current's pulling west.
[radio chatter]
- 1, 0, 1, 0.
Go ahead.
Trace running low on supplies.
- Rescue 88, copy.
It's been two days.
Weather is worsening.
Rescue 8842,
confirmed searching.
[shivering]
[ice cracking]
[pensive music]
[ice cracking]
[shivering]
[ominous music]
[ice cracking]
[pen scratching]
[wind whistling]
[shivering]
Huh?
Hey!
Hello!
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Please, please work, yeah?
[non-english].
[pensive music]
We're going home, finally.
No, where are you going?
No.
No, no, no.
No.
No!
Hello!
No!
No!
I'm here.
I'm here.
No!
[ice cracks]
[muffled yelling]
[gurgling]
[groaning]
[coughing]
[shivering]
[animal crying]
How did you end up here?
[polar bear cub whimpers]
[polar bear cub cries]
[shivering]
I don't know if polar bears
likes nuts, but at least
hey kept me alive, so--
[polar bear cub coos]
You like them?
That's good.
I-- I know they say you're not
supposed to feed the animals,
but we're not in a zoo, so--
[polar bear roaring]
[polar bear cub coos]
[polar bear roars]
Your mom?
[polar bear grunts]
[polar bear cub coos]
[polar bear grunts]
[pensive music]
[distant grunt]
[polar bear grunting]
[deep breathing]
[shivering]
[soft music]
[pensive music]
Hello.
[sad music]
It's time to keep
my promise, Anna.
[inspiring music]
What would you like to do
tonight, my little sister, now
that you're finally free?
Most beautiful place on Earth.
I'll go for a picnic,
amusement park.
Maybe we could ask Mom and
Dad to take us for a swim.
Yeah, you're right.
It's way too cold
for a swim, trust me.
I know.
Want to tell me a bedtime story?
OK, listen.
Just don't tell
me anything scary.
Just tell me something
happy and warm.
Yeah.
No, that's nice.
Tell me about that.
I'm sorry, Anna,
please forgive me.
[pensive music]
[phone buzzing]
[pensive music]
Hello.
Hello.
- Emily?
- Hi, yes, it's me.
Just please, please
call somebody to help.
Please call 112 or 911.
I don't even know.
Just please, please call
somebody to pick me up.
- It's me--
- You won't even believe
how happy I am to--
- --the air conditioner guy.
- Huh?
- Yes, unfortunately--
- OK, you need to call
somebody to help me now.
You need to call
somebody, please.
- --to make my last call.
- Last what?
- Call.
- What?
OK, I don't know.
Just, what does that mean?
Just help me, please.
- It means that I don't
get to call anymore.
- To me?
- To nobody.
- Why?
- Does it matter?
- I don't know.
I mean, the only thing
that fucking matters
is that you're my only contact.
My phone doesn't even work.
You just have to call
somebody to help me now.
- Nothing matters.
- I didn't mean that.
- I know what you mean.
That's why I called.
- Look, I don't think
you know what I mean.
I mean, if this is
some kind of prank,
I need you to call somebody to--
- If you think this is a prank,
all you have to do is hang up.
- I won't.
- You already did on
the previous call.
- Maybe it was the network then.
I mean, it doesn't
really work here.
- Where?
Where?
- I'm on an ice floe in
the middle of the ocean.
You have to believe me.
- There we go again.
- Call somebody to
fucking help me.
[phone buzzing]
Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
[ice cracking]
Hello?
Hello?
Fuck.
Hello?
Fuck.
Please, please, please, please.
Please don't go.
Please just say something.
- Yeah?
You're still there.
Thank God.
- Why are you playing with me?
- What?
Me playing with you?
- Right.
- OK, so you called me.
- Well, you see, I was supposed
to become a basketball player.
Are you still there?
- Yeah, I'm here.
- Yeah, well, it
was just a dream.
I mean, I wasn't tall
enough or fast enough.
I was good but not that good.
- OK, I'm sorry.
- No need.
That's life.
- Yeah.
- I also wanted to
become a doctor,
but I mean, I didn't read
enough for the entrance exams.
- I don't know what to say.
- I just couldn't concentrate
because I was just taking care
of my three little siblings.
You know, my father
died when I was little.
And my mother, well, she's sick.
So I gave up my
plans to go to study.
- I'm really sorry for you.
- I was just, I mean, even
just not smart enough.
And you don't have to be sorry.
Everybody wants something, and
everybody has dreams like me.
I wanted to be
somebody, you know?
Anybody but me.
I never wanted to
be a telemarketer.
But this is all I got.
This is all I was good for.
- I'm sorry.
- You what?
What did you say?
- I just said that I'm--
- I don't want your pity.
Most of us don't get
what we want, you know.
And I didn't-- I just didn't
want to be a bad telemarketer.
But that's what I became,
the scum of the world.
- Why would you say that?
- Because I'm honest.
Everybody thinks that.
- I don't.
- Most people just hang up.
Some are nasty.
And then there
are those who want
to be nice just to
please because they
want to make a good impression.
- If you think that I--
I didn't--
- Yes, you did.
- What do you want from me?
- I don't know what I want
from you, someone to hear me,
someone--
when I called you
the first time,
you could have easily hung
up as soon as he heard
I was selling air conditioners.
But instead of hanging
up, you spoke with me
and created that absurd story.
You wouldn't understand.
I feel like the walls
are coming down on me.
You know the feeling?
[phone buzzing]
- The walls aren't exactly
coming down on me because--
because I'm on a
melting piece of ice
in the middle of the ocean.
- Yeah, right.
I almost forgot.
- Meeting another human, a
fellow being of my own kind
is the strongest
comfort in loneliness,
even if it's just a voice.
You should've seen what
I'm seeing right now.
It doesn't matter if the voice
is strange, encouraging, joyful,
sad, frightening, or confusing.
What matters is that the
voice doesn't disappear.
You can imagine its face
and figure next to you.
Nothing is more important
than keeping the connection,
especially if you've already
decided to surrender.
But suddenly, you don't
want to let go of life.
- So you don't feel like
a prisoner, like I do?
You can do whatever
you want, and you
can go wherever you want.
- I wouldn't say so.
- Emily, please.
Don't even try.
You're living in the
world you've always
dreamt of, doing exactly
what you always wanted to do.
- What?
I don't get you.
- The spotlights, the crowd,
the applause, the red carpets,
and most importantly,
passion, that great feeling
you get every time
you skate on the ice.
- How do you know?
- Easy, I've got your
name on the list,
and Google has been invented, so
many great and beautiful shots
and clips of your career
and your social media page.
- Are you stalking me?
- No, not really.
I just wanted to know more
about you after I called you.
- Why would you do that?
That's weird.
- How come?
- Because it's
weird that you go--
what?
You go googling after calls
to investigate those people.
- No, no, no.
You're the only one.
- OK, well, I don't believe you.
I mean, you seem to know a lot
about me, and I don't even--
I don't even know
your name, so--
- Yes, I believe that
you don't believe.
My name is Harry.
- So you don't believe that
I'm on a melting piece of ice
in the middle of the ocean?
Nice to meet you, Harry.
[ice cracking]
[water splashing]
Actually, I think I'm a
little further south now.
I mean, the ice is melting.
And I think maybe it's
getting a little bit warmer.
- What I believe,
because I know,
is that you're on
the Arctic glacier,
or at least you were there.
- Yeah.
Yes, I--
- Wait.
So here's your
selfie video of you
on your way to the
airport with your team.
Here you're on the plane.
You're explaining
something to your friend
about the wooden
thing in your arms.
What is it, by the way?
- It's-- it's my sister's urn.
- Really?
I'm so sorry.
- Don't be.
Don't be.
Anna died a long time ago.
She was seven, and I was eight.
Harry?
- May I ask how?
- She was-- she was struck
by a lightning bolt.
- Really?
How is that possible?
- Man, it was so
beautiful, and--
Time was as limitless
as the sea is limitless.
That day the sky
was gray, and you
could sense the thunder
rumbling in the distance.
Anna stopped at the
edge of the meadow
and wanted to go back home.
- Come on.
Let's run.
- I saw the fear in her eyes.
- Mama has said that.
- You coward.
- Anna's frightened
eyes just made
defiance awaken in my blood.
I wanted to race
across the meadow.
A flash sparked in Anna's
eyes, and she took off
running before me.
I gained a lead and
was already nearing
the other side of the meadow
past her in an instant.
[calm music]
And then--
[thunder clap]
--just like that, I knew
that "once upon a time"
life was forever left behind,
a single bolt of lightning.
- So you think it was
your fault, right?
[pensive music]
[ominous music]
[phone buzzing]
- Google turns out that
you are also a writer.
Your book has been published,
"Bedtime Stories by Anna
and Emily."
- Yeah.
My sister and I used to
tell each other stories
each night before we'd fall
asleep, and then some of them
I wrote down.
Later I have finished the
text, and I published them.
- I've noticed that you're
good at telling stories.
- Have you read my book?
- No.
- So--
- Emily to die by the lightning
bolt is one in a million chance.
- Yeah.
Harry?
- Hang on.
Here we go again.
I found pictures and video clips
from your friends and Instagram
and Facebook and
Alessandro's page.
- So you really are stalking me?
- There are pictures from
a promo shoot on an Arctic
glacier.
- Yeah.
- This is you, your team.
Whoa, it looks like you had
quite a party out there.
- OK, what more do you see?
- Laughter and chatter.
Oh, you were a little
drunk at the party.
- I'm not.
- But you definitely were.
- I definitely wasn't.
- I thought athletes didn't
drink, at least not figure
skaters.
- Everybody thinks that.
But I mean, of course, we like--
- You look so happy.
[pensive music]
[waves crashing]
- Harry?
Harry?
Harry?
Harry, please, please say
something if you're there.
- I wouldn't believe
a word you say,
if I didn't see on your
friends' social media pages,
that you're carrying an urn.
Wait a moment again.
Here you're telling--
wait a second.
[pensive music]
Well, you're telling
the camera that this
is the right morning
and the right moment,
and you have to do it alone.
Now you skate away.
Your friends are talking.
Someone says Emily's getting
to the edge of the ice
to scatter Anna's
ashes in the sea.
And now you disappear behind
a mound out of the picture.
- Yeah.
It was just about a
two-kilometer skate to the edge.
And when I reached the
edge of the icy cliff,
I realized that
here it is, actually
the most beautiful
place in the world.
And I finally found
somewhere where I could
scatter Anna's ashes and then--
yeah, then the edge of the
cliff fell, and here I am.
[sad music]
How long have we been talking?
- Does it matter?
- It's morning.
- Are you busy?
You need to go?
- Are you kidding me?
- No.
I'm asking.
- Where would I go?
I'm on the--
- On the ice floe in
the middle of the ocean.
Yeah, I know that story already.
But, Emily, I only ask
you out of curiosity.
Where are you really?
- If you don't believe
me, why do you care?
- Because-- OK, look, if you
really needed help for some
reason, you wouldn't
waste your time on me.
You probably have
close friends so you
could share your time with them,
not some stranger in the phone.
Either way, the end
result is that you
have problems with
yourself because you're
talking all night with
some stranger on the phone.
- Well, that makes two of us.
I mean, you're wasting
your time with me,
and you don't even know me, so--
- Because you're a special case.
I didn't know anything
about you until I called you
the first time.
But for some reason--
never mind.
Can't explain.
- OK, Harry, you said that
this is your last call.
You know, for me, this is
probably my last call ever,
and I mean ever.
And I don't care anymore what
you believe or don't believe
because it's just been nice.
When it comes to
my little problem,
I probably won't make
it, but this phone call
has meant a lot to me.
And I understand you're
a special case too, so--
- Wait, Emily, I found
something on the news.
Yeah.
- What?
- Here's a photo, some
members of your team.
One of them is wearing
a red scarf in her hand.
- Yes.
Yes.
- The headline of
the article says,
"Our Last Memory of a Dear
Friend and a Great Skater."
The scarf was lifted from
the ice sea from below.
The search had already
begun on the glacier site
but was called off after
the scarf was found.
- No, no, no, no.
OK.
- Emily--
- You need to call--
- --I think that--
- --my teammates now.
Please, you need to call them.
If they're here, they
can come and get me and--
- Wait.
- What?
What?
[ice cracking]
[dramatic music]
[grunts]
[groaning]
[moaning]
[pensive music]
[moaning]
[whimpering]
[grunting]
[inspiring music]
[exhaling sharply]
[moaning]
[exhaling sharply]
[pensive music]
[moaning]
[shivering]
[thump]
[pensive music]
Hi, I'm Emily.
Nice to meet you.
I'm really sorry, but I'm
going to have to eat you.
It's nothing personal, I swear.
I'll call you Fish.
OK, so that's Fish, Emily.
Emily, Fish.
Can I ask you something, fish?
It's a little personal, but
you ever think about death?
And I'm sure you do, but
are you afraid of it?
I'm sure you are,
a little bit maybe?
[pensive music]
Fish?
Fish?
Fish?
I'm sorry.
You can make it, Fish.
I believe in you.
Please, please,
you can't give up.
Please, Fish.
Fish!
Fish, fish!
No, please.
Fish.
Bye, my little Fish.
[sad music]
[moaning]
[exhaling sharply]
[groaning]
[gagging]
[thunder clap]
[rain falling]
[shivering]
[pensive music]
[dramatic music]
[thunder clap]
[water splashing]
[soft music]
[thunder clap]
[dramatic music]
[pensive music]
- (SINGING) Nicest
place we've ever seen
Flowers waving
[dramatic music]
[gasps]
[helicopter blades chopping]
- 6L12 looks like certainly 122.
Be another F5 turning at the
intersection of North-South
[helicopter blades chopping]
- Code blue, room 305.
[pensive music]
[chatter]
[traffic noise]
[subway car whooshing]
[soft music]
- Back then, in the meadow,
I left the "once upon a time"
life.
[pensive music]
It can be done in many
ways so that you no longer
have to try and move forward.
But you can just
live in the moment
and be not in the
past or future.
And in the midst
of it all, my mind
was never clear enough
to even stop and think.
Once upon a time,
life was a burden
on my shoulders all
those years, under all
those highlights and spotlights.
See?
Do you see me now?
I'm infinite.
[emotional music]
- Hello.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Hi.
I was just calling to see if
you sell air conditioners--
- Emily?
- --and, of course,
to thank you.
[emotional music]
[emotional music]
[dramatic music]
[soft music]
[pensive music]
[emotional music]
[wind blowing]
[soft music]
- Can I ask you something?
It's a little personal, but
do you ever think about death?
[ice cracking]
[ominous music]
Help!
Hello.
Help!
Hello!
Please, I'm here.
Anyone?
Please.
Help!
[dramatic music]
- And according to reports
just coming in, a young
and internationally-renowned
figure skater has gone missing
on a northern glacier.
The skater, whose name has not
yet been officially released,
was taking part in a promotional
trip with her skating team.
Alongside a photo
shoot, the schedule
also included a survival-style
overnight expedition
on the glacier.
- Sector Charlie scanned.
No visual confirmation.
Beginning approach
to delta zone.
- Copy.
Maintain grid pattern.
Report any anomaly
no matter how small.
[soft music]
- Visibility is fair.
Horizon is clear.
If the target drifted,
currents could have carried
them 20, 30 miles by now.
- Noted.
Stay systematic.
Every sector must be checked.
- Roger.
Adjusting heading 085.
Grid sweep continues.
[helicopter blades chopping]
- No flares detected.
Negative strobe.
Negative heat.
Only ice movement.
- Copy.
Hold your track.
Stay on current bearing.
Stay sharp.
Every minute counts.
- If someone's out here,
they're not making it easy.
- According to sources,
the disappearance
occurred late in the morning.
It remains unclear whether the
skater became lost on the ice
itself, as strong
winds and snowfall
has obscured any tracks.
Another possibility
is that she may
have headed towards
the glacier's edge
and fallen into the
freezing waters.
One of her teammates gave a
brief statement to us earlier.
- I still can't believe it.
She said in the morning that
she needed a moment alone.
- Authorities emphasize
that time is critical.
[dramatic music]
[radio chatter]
- Roger.
Rescue vessel now 10
minutes from glacier base.
Any sightings?
- Negative.
Repeat, negative.
Reflection only.
Ice fragments catching the beam.
Returning to grid track.
- Continue one final sweep,
then prepare to return base.
Confirm fuel status.
- Fuel sufficient
for 30 minutes.
Resuming.
- Copy.
Vessel will check
sector Alpha 9.
[pensive music]
- Come on.
It must be here.
Where is it?
[wind blowing]
[pensive music]
Please, come on.
OK.
Please.
[phone buzzing]
[snow crunching]
[wind whistling]
- (SINGING) Meadow,
meadow, soft and sweet
Nicest thing we've ever seen
Flowers waving in the breeze
Dancing tall with buzzing bees
Hold my hand and laugh with me
Under skies so wild and free
[heavy breathing]
[pensive music]
- Yes!
[fire crackling]
[chuckles]
[dramatic music]
Fuck.
[groans]
Yes.
[pensive music]
[shivering]
[waves roaring]
(SINGING) Dancing
tall with buzzing bees
Meadow, meadow, soft and sweet
Nicest place we've ever seen
[tent flapping]
[dramatic music]
[tent rips]
[yelps]
[grunting]
[shouts]
[waves roaring]
[helicopter blades chopping]
- We've flown grids Alpha
through Foxtrot twice.
If anyone was out
here, yesterday's storm
would have taken them.
Odds are almost zero.
- Copy.
- Request guidance.
Do we extend or return?
- Standby.
Command evaluating termination.
[pensive music]
[inhales deeply]
[wind whistling]
[crickets chirping]
[pensive music]
- [faint nursery rhyme]
[ingressive hiss]
[blows]
- Come on.
Yes.
[blows]
- [giggling]
[pensive music]
[sad music]
[singing nursery rhyme]
[water splashing]
- OK, this has got to work.
[elegant music]
[applause]
[pensive music]
[inspiring music]
There.
[dramatic music]
Please, please.
[shivering]
Goddamn it.
Goddamn.
[shivering]
[ominous music]
[phone buzzing]
Come on.
Hello?
Please, please, please.
Hello?
- Is there somebody there?
Hello?
- Hi.
Hi.
Yes, hi.
Help me.
Hi.
- Yes, I'll help you, and
I'll make your day brilliant.
Am I speaking with Ms. Emily?
- Yes, yes, please send
somebody to help me.
- I'm Harry.
I'm calling from Cool
Breeze Air Conditioners.
With summer around the corner,
we're offering great deals
on our latest models.
- No, no, please listen to me.
I don't need an air conditioner.
I need help.
I'm lost in the middle of the--
- Is there somebody there?
- --Arctic Ocean
somewhere stuck--
- Hello?
- --on this ice floe, and I--
- Really an ice floe?
Wow.
- Yes, really, an ice floe.
I'll send you my
coordinates, OK.
I don't know my coordinates.
- If you're not interested in
my offer, you can just say so.
I don't want to push.
- No, I'm not joking.
- Me neither.
- I was with my team, and
the edge of the glacier fell.
And I woke up here.
And I'm--
- Our eco-friendly air
conditioners are really energy
efficient.
This is the last week--
- No, no, no.
Just please, please just stop
talking about air conditioners.
Please send somebody to help me.
I am begging you.
- All right, ma'am, I got it.
I have other calls to make.
- No.
No, no, no, no.
Don't hang up on me, please.
- Stay cool and have a good day.
- No, please.
[disconnect tone]
Hello?
Hello?
Fuck.
Hello?
Hello.
Fuck.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Please, please, please.
Fuck.
[crying]
- [giggling]
[pensive music]
[rumbling]
[ominous music]
[pensive music]
- Rescue 8842.
Rescue 8842, visual for each--
excuse me, 35 Seven
sector swept again.
Glacier edge is breaking up.
Current's pulling west.
[radio chatter]
- 1, 0, 1, 0.
Go ahead.
Trace running low on supplies.
- Rescue 88, copy.
It's been two days.
Weather is worsening.
Rescue 8842,
confirmed searching.
[shivering]
[ice cracking]
[pensive music]
[ice cracking]
[shivering]
[ominous music]
[ice cracking]
[pen scratching]
[wind whistling]
[shivering]
Huh?
Hey!
Hello!
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Please, please work, yeah?
[non-english].
[pensive music]
We're going home, finally.
No, where are you going?
No.
No, no, no.
No.
No!
Hello!
No!
No!
I'm here.
I'm here.
No!
[ice cracks]
[muffled yelling]
[gurgling]
[groaning]
[coughing]
[shivering]
[animal crying]
How did you end up here?
[polar bear cub whimpers]
[polar bear cub cries]
[shivering]
I don't know if polar bears
likes nuts, but at least
hey kept me alive, so--
[polar bear cub coos]
You like them?
That's good.
I-- I know they say you're not
supposed to feed the animals,
but we're not in a zoo, so--
[polar bear roaring]
[polar bear cub coos]
[polar bear roars]
Your mom?
[polar bear grunts]
[polar bear cub coos]
[polar bear grunts]
[pensive music]
[distant grunt]
[polar bear grunting]
[deep breathing]
[shivering]
[soft music]
[pensive music]
Hello.
[sad music]
It's time to keep
my promise, Anna.
[inspiring music]
What would you like to do
tonight, my little sister, now
that you're finally free?
Most beautiful place on Earth.
I'll go for a picnic,
amusement park.
Maybe we could ask Mom and
Dad to take us for a swim.
Yeah, you're right.
It's way too cold
for a swim, trust me.
I know.
Want to tell me a bedtime story?
OK, listen.
Just don't tell
me anything scary.
Just tell me something
happy and warm.
Yeah.
No, that's nice.
Tell me about that.
I'm sorry, Anna,
please forgive me.
[pensive music]
[phone buzzing]
[pensive music]
Hello.
Hello.
- Emily?
- Hi, yes, it's me.
Just please, please
call somebody to help.
Please call 112 or 911.
I don't even know.
Just please, please call
somebody to pick me up.
- It's me--
- You won't even believe
how happy I am to--
- --the air conditioner guy.
- Huh?
- Yes, unfortunately--
- OK, you need to call
somebody to help me now.
You need to call
somebody, please.
- --to make my last call.
- Last what?
- Call.
- What?
OK, I don't know.
Just, what does that mean?
Just help me, please.
- It means that I don't
get to call anymore.
- To me?
- To nobody.
- Why?
- Does it matter?
- I don't know.
I mean, the only thing
that fucking matters
is that you're my only contact.
My phone doesn't even work.
You just have to call
somebody to help me now.
- Nothing matters.
- I didn't mean that.
- I know what you mean.
That's why I called.
- Look, I don't think
you know what I mean.
I mean, if this is
some kind of prank,
I need you to call somebody to--
- If you think this is a prank,
all you have to do is hang up.
- I won't.
- You already did on
the previous call.
- Maybe it was the network then.
I mean, it doesn't
really work here.
- Where?
Where?
- I'm on an ice floe in
the middle of the ocean.
You have to believe me.
- There we go again.
- Call somebody to
fucking help me.
[phone buzzing]
Hello?
Hello?
Hello?
[ice cracking]
Hello?
Hello?
Fuck.
Hello?
Fuck.
Please, please, please, please.
Please don't go.
Please just say something.
- Yeah?
You're still there.
Thank God.
- Why are you playing with me?
- What?
Me playing with you?
- Right.
- OK, so you called me.
- Well, you see, I was supposed
to become a basketball player.
Are you still there?
- Yeah, I'm here.
- Yeah, well, it
was just a dream.
I mean, I wasn't tall
enough or fast enough.
I was good but not that good.
- OK, I'm sorry.
- No need.
That's life.
- Yeah.
- I also wanted to
become a doctor,
but I mean, I didn't read
enough for the entrance exams.
- I don't know what to say.
- I just couldn't concentrate
because I was just taking care
of my three little siblings.
You know, my father
died when I was little.
And my mother, well, she's sick.
So I gave up my
plans to go to study.
- I'm really sorry for you.
- I was just, I mean, even
just not smart enough.
And you don't have to be sorry.
Everybody wants something, and
everybody has dreams like me.
I wanted to be
somebody, you know?
Anybody but me.
I never wanted to
be a telemarketer.
But this is all I got.
This is all I was good for.
- I'm sorry.
- You what?
What did you say?
- I just said that I'm--
- I don't want your pity.
Most of us don't get
what we want, you know.
And I didn't-- I just didn't
want to be a bad telemarketer.
But that's what I became,
the scum of the world.
- Why would you say that?
- Because I'm honest.
Everybody thinks that.
- I don't.
- Most people just hang up.
Some are nasty.
And then there
are those who want
to be nice just to
please because they
want to make a good impression.
- If you think that I--
I didn't--
- Yes, you did.
- What do you want from me?
- I don't know what I want
from you, someone to hear me,
someone--
when I called you
the first time,
you could have easily hung
up as soon as he heard
I was selling air conditioners.
But instead of hanging
up, you spoke with me
and created that absurd story.
You wouldn't understand.
I feel like the walls
are coming down on me.
You know the feeling?
[phone buzzing]
- The walls aren't exactly
coming down on me because--
because I'm on a
melting piece of ice
in the middle of the ocean.
- Yeah, right.
I almost forgot.
- Meeting another human, a
fellow being of my own kind
is the strongest
comfort in loneliness,
even if it's just a voice.
You should've seen what
I'm seeing right now.
It doesn't matter if the voice
is strange, encouraging, joyful,
sad, frightening, or confusing.
What matters is that the
voice doesn't disappear.
You can imagine its face
and figure next to you.
Nothing is more important
than keeping the connection,
especially if you've already
decided to surrender.
But suddenly, you don't
want to let go of life.
- So you don't feel like
a prisoner, like I do?
You can do whatever
you want, and you
can go wherever you want.
- I wouldn't say so.
- Emily, please.
Don't even try.
You're living in the
world you've always
dreamt of, doing exactly
what you always wanted to do.
- What?
I don't get you.
- The spotlights, the crowd,
the applause, the red carpets,
and most importantly,
passion, that great feeling
you get every time
you skate on the ice.
- How do you know?
- Easy, I've got your
name on the list,
and Google has been invented, so
many great and beautiful shots
and clips of your career
and your social media page.
- Are you stalking me?
- No, not really.
I just wanted to know more
about you after I called you.
- Why would you do that?
That's weird.
- How come?
- Because it's
weird that you go--
what?
You go googling after calls
to investigate those people.
- No, no, no.
You're the only one.
- OK, well, I don't believe you.
I mean, you seem to know a lot
about me, and I don't even--
I don't even know
your name, so--
- Yes, I believe that
you don't believe.
My name is Harry.
- So you don't believe that
I'm on a melting piece of ice
in the middle of the ocean?
Nice to meet you, Harry.
[ice cracking]
[water splashing]
Actually, I think I'm a
little further south now.
I mean, the ice is melting.
And I think maybe it's
getting a little bit warmer.
- What I believe,
because I know,
is that you're on
the Arctic glacier,
or at least you were there.
- Yeah.
Yes, I--
- Wait.
So here's your
selfie video of you
on your way to the
airport with your team.
Here you're on the plane.
You're explaining
something to your friend
about the wooden
thing in your arms.
What is it, by the way?
- It's-- it's my sister's urn.
- Really?
I'm so sorry.
- Don't be.
Don't be.
Anna died a long time ago.
She was seven, and I was eight.
Harry?
- May I ask how?
- She was-- she was struck
by a lightning bolt.
- Really?
How is that possible?
- Man, it was so
beautiful, and--
Time was as limitless
as the sea is limitless.
That day the sky
was gray, and you
could sense the thunder
rumbling in the distance.
Anna stopped at the
edge of the meadow
and wanted to go back home.
- Come on.
Let's run.
- I saw the fear in her eyes.
- Mama has said that.
- You coward.
- Anna's frightened
eyes just made
defiance awaken in my blood.
I wanted to race
across the meadow.
A flash sparked in Anna's
eyes, and she took off
running before me.
I gained a lead and
was already nearing
the other side of the meadow
past her in an instant.
[calm music]
And then--
[thunder clap]
--just like that, I knew
that "once upon a time"
life was forever left behind,
a single bolt of lightning.
- So you think it was
your fault, right?
[pensive music]
[ominous music]
[phone buzzing]
- Google turns out that
you are also a writer.
Your book has been published,
"Bedtime Stories by Anna
and Emily."
- Yeah.
My sister and I used to
tell each other stories
each night before we'd fall
asleep, and then some of them
I wrote down.
Later I have finished the
text, and I published them.
- I've noticed that you're
good at telling stories.
- Have you read my book?
- No.
- So--
- Emily to die by the lightning
bolt is one in a million chance.
- Yeah.
Harry?
- Hang on.
Here we go again.
I found pictures and video clips
from your friends and Instagram
and Facebook and
Alessandro's page.
- So you really are stalking me?
- There are pictures from
a promo shoot on an Arctic
glacier.
- Yeah.
- This is you, your team.
Whoa, it looks like you had
quite a party out there.
- OK, what more do you see?
- Laughter and chatter.
Oh, you were a little
drunk at the party.
- I'm not.
- But you definitely were.
- I definitely wasn't.
- I thought athletes didn't
drink, at least not figure
skaters.
- Everybody thinks that.
But I mean, of course, we like--
- You look so happy.
[pensive music]
[waves crashing]
- Harry?
Harry?
Harry?
Harry, please, please say
something if you're there.
- I wouldn't believe
a word you say,
if I didn't see on your
friends' social media pages,
that you're carrying an urn.
Wait a moment again.
Here you're telling--
wait a second.
[pensive music]
Well, you're telling
the camera that this
is the right morning
and the right moment,
and you have to do it alone.
Now you skate away.
Your friends are talking.
Someone says Emily's getting
to the edge of the ice
to scatter Anna's
ashes in the sea.
And now you disappear behind
a mound out of the picture.
- Yeah.
It was just about a
two-kilometer skate to the edge.
And when I reached the
edge of the icy cliff,
I realized that
here it is, actually
the most beautiful
place in the world.
And I finally found
somewhere where I could
scatter Anna's ashes and then--
yeah, then the edge of the
cliff fell, and here I am.
[sad music]
How long have we been talking?
- Does it matter?
- It's morning.
- Are you busy?
You need to go?
- Are you kidding me?
- No.
I'm asking.
- Where would I go?
I'm on the--
- On the ice floe in
the middle of the ocean.
Yeah, I know that story already.
But, Emily, I only ask
you out of curiosity.
Where are you really?
- If you don't believe
me, why do you care?
- Because-- OK, look, if you
really needed help for some
reason, you wouldn't
waste your time on me.
You probably have
close friends so you
could share your time with them,
not some stranger in the phone.
Either way, the end
result is that you
have problems with
yourself because you're
talking all night with
some stranger on the phone.
- Well, that makes two of us.
I mean, you're wasting
your time with me,
and you don't even know me, so--
- Because you're a special case.
I didn't know anything
about you until I called you
the first time.
But for some reason--
never mind.
Can't explain.
- OK, Harry, you said that
this is your last call.
You know, for me, this is
probably my last call ever,
and I mean ever.
And I don't care anymore what
you believe or don't believe
because it's just been nice.
When it comes to
my little problem,
I probably won't make
it, but this phone call
has meant a lot to me.
And I understand you're
a special case too, so--
- Wait, Emily, I found
something on the news.
Yeah.
- What?
- Here's a photo, some
members of your team.
One of them is wearing
a red scarf in her hand.
- Yes.
Yes.
- The headline of
the article says,
"Our Last Memory of a Dear
Friend and a Great Skater."
The scarf was lifted from
the ice sea from below.
The search had already
begun on the glacier site
but was called off after
the scarf was found.
- No, no, no, no.
OK.
- Emily--
- You need to call--
- --I think that--
- --my teammates now.
Please, you need to call them.
If they're here, they
can come and get me and--
- Wait.
- What?
What?
[ice cracking]
[dramatic music]
[grunts]
[groaning]
[moaning]
[pensive music]
[moaning]
[whimpering]
[grunting]
[inspiring music]
[exhaling sharply]
[moaning]
[exhaling sharply]
[pensive music]
[moaning]
[shivering]
[thump]
[pensive music]
Hi, I'm Emily.
Nice to meet you.
I'm really sorry, but I'm
going to have to eat you.
It's nothing personal, I swear.
I'll call you Fish.
OK, so that's Fish, Emily.
Emily, Fish.
Can I ask you something, fish?
It's a little personal, but
you ever think about death?
And I'm sure you do, but
are you afraid of it?
I'm sure you are,
a little bit maybe?
[pensive music]
Fish?
Fish?
Fish?
I'm sorry.
You can make it, Fish.
I believe in you.
Please, please,
you can't give up.
Please, Fish.
Fish!
Fish, fish!
No, please.
Fish.
Bye, my little Fish.
[sad music]
[moaning]
[exhaling sharply]
[groaning]
[gagging]
[thunder clap]
[rain falling]
[shivering]
[pensive music]
[dramatic music]
[thunder clap]
[water splashing]
[soft music]
[thunder clap]
[dramatic music]
[pensive music]
- (SINGING) Nicest
place we've ever seen
Flowers waving
[dramatic music]
[gasps]
[helicopter blades chopping]
- 6L12 looks like certainly 122.
Be another F5 turning at the
intersection of North-South
[helicopter blades chopping]
- Code blue, room 305.
[pensive music]
[chatter]
[traffic noise]
[subway car whooshing]
[soft music]
- Back then, in the meadow,
I left the "once upon a time"
life.
[pensive music]
It can be done in many
ways so that you no longer
have to try and move forward.
But you can just
live in the moment
and be not in the
past or future.
And in the midst
of it all, my mind
was never clear enough
to even stop and think.
Once upon a time,
life was a burden
on my shoulders all
those years, under all
those highlights and spotlights.
See?
Do you see me now?
I'm infinite.
[emotional music]
- Hello.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Hi.
I was just calling to see if
you sell air conditioners--
- Emily?
- --and, of course,
to thank you.
[emotional music]
[emotional music]
[dramatic music]