A 7-year-old's loneliness grows up with him — until someone finally cracks the plastic shell.
A few ordinary days in the life of a lonesome 7-year-old who grows up to be a middle-aged man still clueless about where to find happiness. Not many humans are around him, only plastics that suffocate his world. Then, he meets a guy who makes his heart beat.
Cinematography
Plastic waste as beautiful, suffocating visual poetry.
Acting
Three actors, one soul — seamless age transitions.
Direction
Balmes packs a lifetime into 17 minutes. Show-off.
Director
Lino Balmes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Balmes shot this during pandemic lockdowns, using actual plastic waste from his own household.
The title's double meaning — microplastics in oceans, micro-traumas in childhood — wasn't in the original script but emerged in editing.
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