Eye on Juliet

Eye on Juliet is a Canadian drama film directed by Kim Nguyen and released in 2017. It had its world premiere in the Venice Days program of the 74th Venice International Film Festival, and its North American premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Joe Cole as Gordon, an oil pipeline supervisor who works through a robotic hexapod. Gordon's job is complicated when he becomes fascinated by Ayusha (Lina El Arabi), a young woman he glimpses one day through the drone's camera. Plot Gordon works for an American security company, monitoring threats to their client's oil facility in an unnamed North African country, using dozens of hexapods that have the ability to shoot and cover a large area of desert. Gordon has recently broken up with his girlfriend and is resisting his colleague's attempts to persuade him to "play the field". One day at work, he sees on his cameras a young woman, Ayusha, who resembles his ex. Ayusha is trapped in an arranged marriage and unable to be with her true love, Karim. As her family makes preparations for the wedding, Gordon becomes infatuated by the illicit couple's love, and Ayusha in particular, and takes pictures of the couple. He observes Ayusha undressing in her room via heat-seeking camera and witnesses the couple discussing the logistics of eloping together, which would require Karim to join an illegal project to raise funds. Ignoring the warnings of his supervisor, Peter, Gordon becomes more involved in the couple's lives, drugging Peter while on shift in order to operate freely and sending the couple money for their emigration.