An artist with writer’s block is sitting in an artist’s residence in northern Germany. Outside, construction workers renovate a summer home; inside, nothing happens until the landline rings. As a supposed Microsoft employee wants access to her apparently broken computer, she starts to talk about heartbreak, emptiness, work failure and accidentally becomes a scam baiter. Cold Call follows an unexpectedly tender conversation between two strangers, opening onto digital vigilantism, racialised stereotypes and global inequality, while showing how easily one joins what one seeks to critique.