A girl living alone drifts into the space between sleep and waking, where the world softens and time stops mattering. The animation moves the way exhaustion feels, not the way it looks. You're not watching a story unfold so much as inhabiting a single suspended moment, the kind you forget you had until something reminds you of that exact temperature of loneliness.

A cactus girl has recently moved out and begun a life by herself. Alone in her new room, she nods off and drifts through a place that seems caught somewhere between the real and the imagined. The short film is a 2024 first-year student project from the animation program of the graduate film and new media school at Tokyo University of the Arts.