Indianapolis International Film Festival 2009

Westly Ferris is in love with his co-worker, Shannon, but she barelyknows he's alive. When he builds up enough courage to ask her out, hefails miserably.But that night Shannon contacts Westly on the internet and offers him asecond chance: the opportunity to get to know her better online. Despite company policy forbidding intra-office relationships, Shannonsuggests an internet relationship, using web cameras and instantmessaging. The two coworkers begin an online romance, talking all nightlong. With each passing night, Westly falls more and more in love withShannon, perceiving her aloofness at work as an attempt to cover-uptheir illicit online relationship. But while Shannon is proving to beeverything Westly hoped she would be, there is still one very importantelement missing from their relationship: physical contact.Shannon makes every effort to fulfill Westly's desire online but theneed for the unobtainable begins to unravel a surprising ruse: Westly'scompany 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 writea 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 neverhave.