A lost CGI baby, abandoned by those who gave birth to her and confronted with a contemporary world and its empty spaces, asks herself how to grow up. After the death of her friend the star, the baby doesn’t want to do anything but cook—and reflect on the end of humanity.
The angry infant at the heart of this touching and ingenious short may be the id of the internet: an amalgam of the fear, desire, and longing for connection that fuels the online world every day. Invincible but purposeless, outraged but alone, smart but ineffectual—is this the new human condition?