Please Hold

12/14/2025

The young “Mateo” (Erick Lopez) is heading to work one morning when he is apprehended by an automated policeman, forced to put on hand-cuffs and incarcerated - all without seeing or speaking to an human being. In his cell, the big screen advises him to plead guilty or face 45 years in jail, but he still hasn’t the faintest idea what he’s supposed to have done. With no money, he has to take a prison job to try to earn enough to place a call to his folks to try and get their help to raise enough cash for a perfunctory chat - but that just proves to be with an uninterested attorney who just wants his fee. Is there any chance he is ever going to even get to court let alone attain his freedom, and even if he does - what could possibly await him on the outside? At a time when there is talk of re