Caller Unknown

At 3:14 every night, a crisis volunteer takes a call only she can hear: a man, edging along the bridge where her brother died.

Nell Baek answers phones overnight at a crisis line on the third floor of an old building above a river gorge in Corwen, Pennsylvania. At 3:14 one November night, line 4 lights with a man walking out along the Merriman High Bridge, where her brother died twelve years ago, and he calls her by a name only her brother ever used. Each night he is a few lamps further along, nobody else can hear him, and he is counting toward lamp seventeen.

This film is about suicide and grief. If you are struggling, call or text 988 in the US, or find a line near you at findahelpline.com.

The film is complete in 50 minutes. If it funds, a four-part series opens as a stretch goal, with the film as episode one.