"I cannot stand human contact."
That about sums up Thomas Thomas' (yes, that's two Thomases) problem in "Thomas in Love" (in its original French, "Thomas est Amoureux"), a strange and successful cinematic love affair between Thomas and the outside world he can't bring himself to enter.
It is the not-too-far future. People paint elemental signs on their faces and own robotic vacuum cleaners; criminals can choose between a long-term jail sentence or a shorter period of prostitution; everyone communicates largely through visiophones (futuristic videophone-like devices).
Thomas is an agoraphobic. He has not left his apartment in eight years, and no one has entered it in just as long. The viewer doesn't get to enter it either - the entire film consists of Thomas' conversations and interactions via his visiophone. In fact, the viewer doesn't even get to see Thomas himself - he remains invisible throughout the film as we experience his visiophone communications from his point of view. The voice of Beno
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