Andreo (Miquel Belmonte), a student from Madrid pursuing his law degree at Columbia, is washing his face in the men’s room of an office building, in Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.

Andreo (Miquel Belmonte) is finishing his summer internship at a corporate law firm housed in the Citicorp building in midtown Manhattan. He sits at his desk and finishes a letter in which he describes his ambivalence about a future in law, and he mentions an argument the previous night with his girlfriend, Tasia. He quotes the Spanish poet, Lorca, the subject of his abandoned dissertation in literature: “With the blue kiss, we embrace the earth: and then, the raindrops.”  (Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.)

Outside Andreo's office.  A month before our story takes place, William, an engineer, discovered a structural flaw in the building he had designed the previous year, the Citicorp Center in New York, the seventh tallest building in the world.  The Bethlehem Steel Company, who had raised the building, had reduced costs without his knowledge by bolting, rather than welding, the joints of the building's skeleton.  (Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.)

After rigorous wind load analysis, William estimated the chances of collapse during any given year at more than six percent.   (Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.)

Andreo's girlfriend, Tasia (Adriane Erdos), the daughter of a Spanish lawyer and a Moroccan politician, is spending the summer with her boyfriend in New York, working in an art gallery, in Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.

Tasia gazes at a child (Avalon DeCastro Hechinger) peering into the glass doors of the gallery, in Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.

On the way to a nearby deli, Andreo is struck by the sight of a bicyclist (Elliot Kotek), the victim of an accident, wounded and dazed, in.Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.

Walking to a café, Tasia notices a young Japanese couple, Yashiro (Shiro Watanabe) and Masako (Akiko Hiroshima), who give a camera to a passerby (Robert DeBlasio) for a picture, in Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.

At the café Tasia sits alone, sensing the presence of another man (Izzy Ruiz), in Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.

William (John Weigand), the engineer of the Citicorp tower, arrives from Boston with his partner for a meeting with Citibank; during the drive to midtown they look at architectural diagrams of the building, which is in danger of collapse, due to a structural flaw William has recently discovered, in Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.

Hugh (Theodore Bouloukos), the architect of the Citicorp tower, stares from the car on his way to a crucial meeting with Citibank, in Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.

Tasia (Adriane Erdos), returning home, finds a letter that she leaves unopened, in Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.

Tasia (Adriane Erdos) finds an old letter from Andreo, which quotes a poem by Lorca, written in New York fifty years prior:  “only brute flesh, is:  the kiss, that tethers our mouths in a mesh of raw veins,” in Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.

Andreo, coming home on the subway, sees an Indian woman, Aparna (Pooja Kumar), in Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.

In the subway, Andreo (Miquel Belmonte) pretends to read the paper, in Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.

As night falls. Tasia, in the apartment, lights candles, in Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.

Tasia takes an evening shower, one of her few concessions to American habits, in Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.

Andreo emerges from the subway and notices the rain beginning; he finds himself walking behind Helena (Mona Persson), in Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.

Tasia (Adriane Erdos) reflects, in Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.

Andreo (Miquel Belmonte) greets Tasia (Adriane Erdos) in Joshua Cody and Paul Bozymowski's short film The Kiss.