- A girl has had the love of her life run off with her best friend. During the incident, the girl erased the phone numbers of both her lover and best friend. It is now sometime later and the girl intends to call the phone operator to get her best friend's number, so she can say she forgives her and she's over it.—Lee Neville
- Inspired by and featuring the song 'Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)' written by Jim Croce and performed by Toby Lightman, NOT THE WAY IT FEELS written and directed by Lee Neville expands upon the lyrics and brings the complete story to life. The clues as to what we are about to watch begin at the title when the word NOT comes up followed by the words THE WAY IT FEELS. During the short film, a female Caller calls the Operator to get the current phone number of her ex-best friend and ex-lover who have run off together. Throughout the film all we hear is the song as it tells us the story and what is going on inside the heart and mind of the Caller, while the Operator remains oblivious. And it is during the phone call in which she gets the phone number and drops it and so needs to ask for it again, and then in which she gets the number and makes the ultimate choice as what to do with it, that we discover the real pain and denial of that pain the Caller is going through. It is through the Caller's denial when through the song she says it's "not the way it feels" that we discover the whole story has actually been about "the way it feels".
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