Days before migrating abroad, a grieving detective investigates two sisters linked to a sinister navigation app, only to find himself slowly surrendering to the unseen voices controlling the city and his own lingering sorrow. The Remotes renovates the fascination of the night that we had discovered in Lino Brocka’s Manila in the Claws of Light, this time in a world of automation, surveillance and diffuse violence. Torres’ poetic openness inserts in this environment, portrayed with the codes of sci-fi and detective movies and haunted by mourning, a moving reflection on togetherness and loss.