Philip est responsable d'un centre d'accueil téléphonique pour les personnes suicidaires à Los Angeles. Le soir de Noël, son équipe quelque peu débordée est gagnée par la folie.
Chiken et Ryûgyô sont deux bonzes de l'école bouddhiste Sôtô. Ils se sont connus pendant leur apprentissage spirituel. Chiken, qui vit avec sa femme et son fils à Yamanashi, s’investit dans la prévention du suicide et dispense les préceptes d'une alimentation végétale et zen. A Fukushima, Ryûgyô, seul, fait face aux ravages du tsunami. Son temple détruit, il travaille au déblaiement de la région et accompagne les victimes relogées en préfabriqués.
A feature length documentary about the intense connections made between strangers over the telephone, and explores these anonymous conversations people are often too hesitant to have with the people closest to them. From crisis centers to psychics and sex workers, this documentary eavesdrops on the inner-workings of hotlines and puts faces to the voice on the other end of the line.
A woman calls a suicide prevention hotline and is put on hold.
The head of a psychiatric telephone hotline inspires his associates to get out of the office and into the streets to help people with psychiatric problems.
Life has been cruel to Sally Grimshaw and she has had enough. It's time to end it all. In a last ditch effort to save herself she calls a suicide hot-line and is persuaded to come in and see one of their mental health counsellors - Mr. Vincent. But Mr. Vincent has no intention of talking her out of killing herself. In fact, he runs a service that matches suicidal clients with potential hits. I mean, if you're going to kill yourself you might as well take out some human scum at the same time. At first she refuses, but life is never going to be kind to Sally and she finally agrees - she's in. Sally is faced with the moment of truth when she has to perform the hit. And it is always in such moments that we discover a truth about ourselves. And in such a moment, Sally discovers a reason to live.
Jae-in ("JANE"), a counselor for an anti-suicide hotline, is smitten with Jon-young, a man she befriended on Facebook. But there are parallels between him and a clinically depressed man who calls her hotline.