In a not-so-distant future, Josh, a weary and disillusioned teen, struggles to cope with the bleak reality of life in 2050. With the help of his AI therapist JAZZ, Josh undergoes a moving journey that provides him both clarity and grief. As he struggles to reconcile personal growth with the overwhelming chaos and collapse that surrounds him, Josh is left with the uplifting message that he can find truth, meaning, and hope by embracing reconnection and collective action as powerful forces to heal himself and the world around him.

Joshua Jacobs is a first-time filmmaker who is formerly trained as a chemical engineer at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Now pursuing a master’s degree in Energy Science at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, his primary mission is to find ways to make impacts at the intersection of food, energy, and materials, which he sees as the three main pillars of society. As a filmmaker, he is actively discovering the beauty that comes from telling a good story, and he hopes to harness this power to spread empathy and contribute to the social paradigm shifts which he sees as foundational for the changes we need in our world.