Aisling Franicosi

Ella (Aisling Franicosi) is a stop-motion animator who has largely lived in the shadow of her mother who was an icon in the same field. With old age rendering her mother incapable of executing the kind of physically nuanced work the craft requires, Ella effectively becomes her hands and assists her mother in making her final film. But when her mother dies before she can complete it, Ella is psychologically rocked not merely by grief but by questions surrounding her own identity as both an artist and a woman. Deciding to make her own movie, Ella spirals increasingly out of control as fact and fiction collide and nothing around her is what it appears to be.