"A woman tries to get a hold of her friend."
A woman, concerned about her own job, and stuck in her office cubicle with little but a phone and a computer, and a presentation to do, gets increasingly distraught over the fate of her co-workers: one that she can't contact, and one that just got laid off.
Lili Taylor
Darcy Winningham
April Barton
Cookie
Michael Imperioli
Bennie
Steven Mark Friedman
Robert
A woman, concerned about her own job, and stuck in her office cubicle with little but a phone and a computer, and a presentation to do, gets increasingly distraught over the fate of her co-workers: one that she can't contact, and one that just got laid off.
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