Remote Control

Tsog is growing up in a loveless home with a bitter stepmother and a drunken father. He survives by retreating inside his imaginary world. He eventually runs away from home and settles on the rooftop of a city apartment building, where he soon becomes obsessed with a young woman, Anu, who lives in a top floor apartment of the building opposite. Tsog feels they are kindred souls and imagines different ways to join their fates. He soon finds that he can control Anu's TV with a stolen remote control, and with this little taste of power he wants more. But Tsog's attempts to control Anu's feeling end when a man appears in her apartment. Misery leads Tsog to take revenge; he organizes a robbery of her apartment. When faced with the reality of what he's doing, he saves Anu's flat from robbery using the remote control for the last time. (Zlín Film Festival)