Little Joe
Happiness is a business
A cerebral, unsettling sci-fi drama that uses genetic engineering and a happiness-inducing flower as a lens to examine maternal neglect, the commodification of emotion, and the uncanny gap between intention and consequence.
Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is supposed to have the ability to make its owner happy thanks to its special chemical properties.
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