Little Eyes (Kidnapping) | Database of Machine Vision in Art, Games and Narratives

Brief description

Gregor runs an informal business selling "pre-established kentuki connections". He and his neighbour Nikolina, who has been assisting him, use one of the kentukis to explore the farm it is in, and find a young girl held captive in a barred room. She tells them her name and her mother's phone number, and they are able to contact the police, which eventually rescues the girl.

Gregor at first hesitates to help the girl, as he is worried about his reselling business, which is possibly illegal.

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"In the last room there was a girl," said Nikolina. "The door on that room was closed, but I could fit between the bars, and when the girl saw the kentuki her eyes opened wide. She jumped out of bed like she's seen a glass of water in the middle of the desert. She ran to the door and laid a chair down so I couldn't get back out again." "So now we're locked in, without a charger? How many hours now?" "She's not even fifteen years old, Grigor. She wrote this on a piece of paper and held it in front of the camera." Nikolina showed him the next photo. It seemed to have been written in lipstick. It was a dirty napkin, and except for the phone number, Grigor was unable to understand what the message said. Nikolina read from her notes: "'I'm Andrea Farbe, I've been kidnapped. Mom's phone umber: +584122340077 please!' It's written in Spanish," clarified Nikolina. "I googled the country code and it's Venezuela. I think we're in Brazil but the girl isn't from there."