Rockport Film Festival 2008

Westly Ferris is in love with his co-worker, Shannon, but she barely knows he's alive. When he builds up enough courage to ask her out, he fails miserably. But that night Shannon contacts Westly on the internet and offers him a second chance: the opportunity to get to know her better online. Despite company policy forbidding intra-office relationships, Shannon suggests an internet relationship, using web cameras and instant messaging. The two coworkers begin an online romance, talking all night long. With each passing night, Westly falls more and more in love with Shannon, perceiving her aloofness at work as an attempt to cover-up their illicit online relationship. But while Shannon is proving to be everything Westly hoped she would be, there is still one very important element missing from their relationship: physical contact. Shannon makes every effort to fulfill Westly's desire online but the need for the unobtainable begins to unravel a surprising ruse: Westly's company has been setting him up with a series of complex relationshipsto help him learn about love and he is a test subject in a plan to write a program that will teach computers how to love. But in the process, Westly has fallen in love with an unobtainablebeauty and yearns for a normal relationship he now realized he can never have.