Based on an English academic's memoir on stalking and being stalked, Unrequited Love is a film essay on cinema and absence (a story told without reverse angles), on Hitchcock and Antonioni, on cinema and cities. A story of waiting, self-delusion, panic, fear of violence, of a modern technology which defines the urban stalker as it does the new terrorist. The methods duplicate: irrational and targeted -- a black valentine.

"Chris Petit is a prolific filmmaker and writer of international standing.

His feature films include Radio On (1979) and Chinese Boxes (1984). More recent experimental work includes Negative Space (2000)-- an essay on the legendary American painter and film critic, Manny Farber - and film collaborations with his fellow writer Iain Sinclair, among them The Falconer (1997), Asylum (2000) and London Orbital (2002). As a novelist he has specialised in revealing secret political histories: The Psalm Killer (1996), The Human Pool (2002) and The Passenger (2006). He is the only man alive who appears in the Pocket Essential guides to both Agatha Christie (as director of Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery; 1989) and London Writing (as author of Robinson; 1993)."