In the mid-2000s, before online life had fully swallowed the world, the telephone system still held its own hidden networks, secret codes and illicit communities.

Inspired by true events, Phreaker follows Jake Bellman, a blind fifteen-year-old living a lonely life in a run-down apartment with an absent mother, a resentful older brother and few friends at school. At night, he calls strangers in search of connection — hoping for warmth at the other end of the line. He is not searching for a voice. He is searching for someone to hear him.

Then he finds the party lines: a hidden world of loners, nerds and phone hackers who understand the system better than the companies that built it. With acute hearing and a gift for mimicry, Jake quickly discovers how far a voice can take him. What begins as belonging becomes access; what begins as access becomes money, status and control. But as he rises from isolated outsider to king of the party lines, the world that welcomed him grows more dangerous, and the FBI starts listening back…

Phreaker is a crime thriller about loneliness, technology and the dangerous thrill of finally being heard.

Adam Yorke is a Canadian writer, director and producer whose work spans genre film and independent cinema. He co-wrote the thriller See for Me (2021), and wrote and directed the short films Bunker Burger (2019) and The Cube and the Sphere (2025).

With Phreaker, Yorke moves into feature directing, bringing his interest in technology, isolation and vulnerable protagonists into a tense crime thriller rooted in the strange subculture of telephone phreaking.