The Phone Call


For my visual development class back in Spring 07, our final was an excerpt from a short story from a Russian author. In a nutshell, the story is about a Soviet diplomat who has learned that the Soviets are going to be given plans for the atomic bomb by spies in the US. He is going to attempt to warn the US by calling the US embassy in Moscow from a confidential location, where his identity will be kept a secret. He decides to call from a pay phone in a Moscow Metro station. He knows that all calls into the embassy are being tapped, but must hurry before his location is traced. The story ends when the one of the Soviets tracing the call trips on the cord, thus ending the phone call.
Complicated, I know, but interesting nonetheless. This scene shows our Soviet diplomat entering the Metro station to make the dreadful phone call. I have some more pieces from the story, but I felt that this was the strongest and most post-worthy. Cheers!

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