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A cocky women's prison warden’s life unravels after strange ringtones begin to take over his phone. Driven nearly to suicide, he discovers it was all part of a revenge plot — and now he must rebuild his life from the ruins.
SYNOPSIS:
Freddy is a 35-year-old head of a women's prison in Kennan City. He is very cocky, treats others arrogantly, and doesn’t care about anyone. He uses the inmates however he wants. He believes that his life is successful because he has a house, a girlfriend, and everything he wants. He also has one weakness. He really loves music, and if he likes a song, he sets it as a ringtone.
One day, walking through town, he meets a beggar woman who asks to use his phone to call her daughter. He starts mocking her and asks how her daughter could talk to her, because she’s a beggar. But the woman replies that she never makes guesses about what will happen next. Because we don’t know what life might throw at us.
Freddy says that he always knows what life will be like and gives her the phone. She talks to her daughter and at the end, the beggar woman says, “Ringtone, ringtone, you never know what life is on.” She asks Freddy to leave her the phone because she really needs it, but he refuses and walks away.
One day, while listening to music, he hears a good song about a man quitting his job because of his boss — "Take This Job and Shove It" (Johnny Paycheck). He sets it as his ringtone, and already a week later, a check of his prison finds major violations and he is fired. But he says that it’s nothing, because he is a very good specialist and will be hired as the head of a smaller prison or as a consultant. But time passes and no one hires him. He begins to have financial troubles.
One day, listening to music, he likes a song that tells how a girl cheated on a guy — "You Give Love a Bad Name" (Bon Jovi). He sets it as his ringtone. One day he gets a call that he is expected for an interview. Going there, they call him again and say the interview is canceled. Returning home, he finds his girlfriend with a lover. Very soon she leaves Freddy and moves in with the lover, taking all their savings from the house.
Freddy starts drinking. One evening, while drinking and listening to music, he likes a song about a man losing his home — "Another Day in Paradise" (Phil Collins). He sets it as his ringtone. Very soon, agents from the bank come and say he has a big debt for the house. It is taken away. He has to move in with his mother.
Freddy now lives with his mother, and he drinks, he has mental disorders. He finally decides to set a nice melody on his phone that suggests success — "Good Life" (OneRepublic). But on the phone the ringtone changes by itself to a song about mental disorders — "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (Green Day). And something strange starts happening to him. Insomnia, hallucinations. But his mother notices that his state is exactly like his ringtone. And she tells him this. And says he needs to get rid of the phone.
Already on the verge of suicide, he finds that beggar woman and says that she took the phone. And she says: see, never guess what life might throw at you, because it’s unpredictable. And she takes the phone. And she says that now she can talk to her daughter, because when she first spoke with her, the daughter entered this phone, and she lives in it. And now she can talk to her whenever she wants.
Freddy asks what the daughter’s name was. She says Martha, and that Freddy should know her well, but he says he doesn’t know her, and she tells him that she was an inmate in his prison for theft. She was beautiful, and Freddy from time to time raped her, and Martha couldn’t take it, and hanged herself. So he knows her very well. And here Freddy realizes that everything that happened to him wasn’t random — he was a target of revenge, and now he has to start life over from the beginning.
After some time, Freddy gets a call and is told that they are ready to take him as a guard in a prison. And he realizes that now he needs a phone to stay connected. Gathering some money, he goes to a pawnshop to buy a phone. And there he meets a man who offers him a good phone for a low price. Freddy agrees to buy it, and we find out that this phone was also taken from that same beggar woman.
Freddy buys the phone, but before that tells the man the whole story, and the man says that probably it can’t get any worse.
Freddy gets a job as a guard, and when he gets a call, we hear the song by Nirvana — "Rape Me" — on the
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