Shy in nature and finding his parents to be distracted with work, Charlie retreats in the virtual game world of online first person shooters where his imagination is allowed to run wild. Charlie’s parents, previously unable to handle his growing addiction to online gaming and increasing interiorization, plan to put Charlie in a real life situation.

Alfa Tango Charlie tackles the problem of communication between parents and their children, which is almost always a matter of finding the right (radio) communication channel.
The imaginary battle stands as a symbolic ritual, a baptism of fire welcoming Charlie into the real world, a fight against his own addiction that he must go through alone and, ultimately, the journey of becoming a man.

Alfa Tango Charlie uses cinematic storytelling in a new way pushing the audience’s capacity to decipher visual language by putting as much narrative load as possible on each shot. From the proscenium-like exposition to the repeated forced perspective shots and the visual comparison between the beginning and ending scenes, in Alfa Tango Charlie, each shot counts.

Prolonged exposure to the action film genre has embedded within the collective memory of a massive audience a genre specific set of conventions and images; Alfa Tango Charlie offers a partial image of the battle - the soundscape - and engages the audience by appealing to their previous experience with the genre to fill in the gaps made by the absence of visual effects and complete the experience of the battle.