In the mid-2000s, Sony Ericsson created some of the coolest, best-selling phones on the planet, carrying legendary brands like Walkman and Cyber-shot. Remarkably, they even shipped a working touchscreen smartphone nearly five years before the iPhone changed the industry forever, yet the brand completely vanished by 2012.

This documentary explores how a powerful joint venture between Swedish telecommunications engineering and Japanese consumer electronics dominance ultimately stumbled. It reveals how corporate structure, fifty-fifty deadlocks, and shifting strategies blinded giants to the smartphone revolution.

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