The bold, erotic opening scene of Mango—the latest film directed by Scott Lazer and written by Juli Blachoviak—is a brilliant exposition of a woman who has long since grown tired of her long-term boyfriend. Before waking up Gabe with breakfast, she indulges in some hardcore bondage pornography on her phone, which is made only the more visceral by the sound of her vibrator under the sheets.

Through the film’s smartphone aspect ratio, we have a window into the life of a woman who can be both a kindergarten teacher and a committed girlfriend while having a deep fetish for BDSM. Even though Emma’s infidelity is at the heart of this film, Mango—which is her safe word—explores female desire and the 24/7 self-surveillance we conduct via our phones.

“The inspiration to make a film in a vertical format came from all the times I’ve unwittingly opened the camera on my phone and thought what my phone sees of me: a contorted, heavier, uglier version of myself. As unsightly as it is, one cannot deny its truth,” says Lazer, who spends the twelve minutes of Mango ingloriously distilling social media into its raw components: dick pics, clickbait quizzes, cretinous gifs, pornography, and let’s not forget the all-important rallying cry of “send nudes!”

Lazer makes the audience complicit in Emma’s infidelity as we live inside her phone, reading the salacious messages from her lover Luke, and seeing the sordid images she gleefully obscures on the commute. “Try as we may to perfectly curate our social media feeds, write the best responses, or angle our chin for a photo, that artifice is lost on our phones,” says Lazer. “It’s watching, recording, transmitting, and enabling our worst impulses, like an external avatar we carry with us all the time.”

Our phones know us like nobody else. It’s seen every text you’ve drafted then erased. It knows what you Googled in incognito mode and remembers every picture that never made it to the cloud. Our vice might not be the same as the film’s sexually unsatisfied protagonist, but essentially, Emma represents all of us.