On an ordinary morning, at an ordinary daycare, three-year-old Samuel experiences the unspeakable destroyer of innocence – the news. He changes in the blink of an eye: From a blissful child to a weary adult, decades aged by dire headlines, tragic events and the fate of humanity that is hopelessly too heavy for his new shoulders to bear.
CRYBABY is an absurd tragicomedy that deals with the toll it takes to live in a money-hungry world where everything is collapsing. It is at once a love letter to one’s childhood and an indelible reminder of the one truth every adult knows: Growing up is not child’s play.