"Director's Note
This is a short story about an agent working in a night shift schedule, trying to survive with unwanted visitors of the night- the emotions that gives an overwhelming feelings to him. He carefully consume his break time to loose things up with someone that he usually visit. His mistress that he always spends time with during his circle of moments. But at the end of the story, the mistress is actually the limited break time he is consuming each day.
People have different coping mechanisms. Mostly for the night shifters, it is during their hourly break in a place where people come and go- THE SMOKING AREA. The metaphoric area as a man/woman that asks about their day and gives comfort to them afterwards.
This is a narrative realization that sometimes, our own mistress during our needy days is not a person rather a place, situation, or a thing where we can entrust our real emotions despite of the crowd or noise surrounding us.
This conveys that not all temporary stories are melancholic. Some are just meant to be there for short while, to help us cope with the foreign feelings and exhausting phases. Then[...]"