A late evening in the near future. On the smog-covered streets of Riga, limousine driver Artūrs is starting his shift — he’s weary of his routine, and wary of the whims of the car’s artificial intelligence technology. He tells unfunny jokes and stories and kills time just to avoid making MO jealous. Tonight, a woman, whose presence causes Arthur’s good intentions to fail, calls for the limousine.

What if the dystopian setting of Blade Runner (1982) had been relocated to Riga, but the well-known character of the taxi driver would be driving through the streets of the city, dealing with artificial intelligence like in Spike Jonze’s Her (2013)? Director Tīna Zariņa’s work is a compact mix of references, genres and visual codes, a prediction of the future which has been recognised by the industry winning an award at the Baltic Pitching Forum. Through grotesque retrofuturism, creating a small time lag with its audience, the film attempts to look at society’s co-dependence on services and technology. Starring actors Yuri Diakonov and Ieva Florence-Vīksne.