The Hollow Coin

Espionage or practical joke? Frank Heath shrewdly intertwines true history with a plot of his own imagination: a man has hidden an SD card inside a hollow coin and claims that he accidentally dropped it into a pay phone in New York. In the dialogue between the man in the phone booth and the telecom company’s customer service representative, the story of a Soviet spy who, in 1953, mistakenly paid for a newspaper with a hollow coin that contained a microfilm grounds a critical reflection on the question of authority and agency that is both very funny and incisive.