It hands you a girl who wants to stop existing and a robot that will not let her be alone, then runs out of time before either of them gets an answer. That is the whole trick. Under ten minutes of 3DCG that people were not making look this good in 2009, scored like something much longer and sadder than it has any right to be. The premise is deliberately cryptic, and yes, the runtime strangles it, but the image of a machine that has stood next to the same person since she was a child, still standing there while she begs for the end, does not need exposition to land. This is the kind of thing that gets buried under feature-length prestige while doing more with one held frame. Watch it twice. The second pass is where the eternity part starts to hurt.

In the near future, 20 years after the last energy wars and environmental disasters ravaged the land, people live under an energy dome kept running by the Amon perpetual motion machine. Its inventor, the scientist Makimura Souichi, also built a robot named Amanatsu, who has been with his 14-year-old daughter Amane since she was small. Amane longs for death. The story opens when Amanatsu takes the key to the perpetual motion machine and heads for the end of the world. The short sci-fi film is made in CG by Kamikaze Douga.