An office worker is alone at night with just the cleaner vacuuming around him when his computer randomly turns off. Frustrated at not being able to access his work, the computer starts up again by itself and offers him three wishes. Unable to make the message go away he asks the computer to stop the sound around him. The sound suddenly disappears with the cleaner nowhere in sight. Still in denial, he asks the computer to make him rich. Seconds later he hears the lottery numbers being announced on the radio. They match the ones on his ticket. Now intrigued he realises he only has one wish left. He thinks long and hard before finally choosing the perfect wish.
Director’s Vision for ‘Heart’s Desire’
I originally wrote the script for ‘Heart’s Desire’ in my late teens with the story being inspired by a question I was asked a lot by my friends: “If you could wish for anything, what would you wish for?”. I always thought my answers to this question were clever. However, now grown up, I realise that those answers have wider implications than I originally thought. I wanted to make this film something the audience would remember and think about once the credits began.
To do this I needed the protagonist to be relatable – a tired employee working late at night doing a dull and meaningless job. When creating the scene, I wanted it to feel like reality and fiction colliding – starting off very dull and corporate before introducing an entity of otherworldly nature and leaning into a more sci-fi realm.
I am pleased with what my team and I were able to create and I hope the audience finds the story engaging, being my main goal when approaching any film.
