Associate Professor

A man in a black leather jacket and sunglasses stands in a rain-slicked phone booth, holding a receiver to his ear while looking at a young boy on the other side of the glass; the boy, with a concerned expression, watches him intently as rain streaks down the window. The scene cuts to a woman with curly hair, wearing a checkered shirt, who holds a beige telephone receiver to her ear, her face showing distress as she speaks, then closes her eyes in sorrow. The sequence alternates between the man and boy in the phone booth and the woman on the phone, with the man and boy exchanging glances and t