Frog Hollow is a sci-fi narrative film that takes place in a future where an artificially intelligent humanoid robot named Francis lives alone on an island in the Pacific Northwest of the US. Before humans left Earth for space stations, her programmers created her to maintain a living example of human life on the planet. Francis is alone and grapples with the contradictory personality she was programmed and tasked to embody. During one of her mid-day walks in an old growth forest, she stumbles upon a park called “Frog Hollow.” Though she has been programmed to know everything about what a frog is, she holds one in her hand for the very first time. In that moment, a new world opens to her – one filled with understanding and compassion for the life around her – A trait that her programmers seemed to have mysteriously left out of her coding. Francis returns to Frog Hollow day after day to watch the frogs. She reveres them and their natural ability to morph and adapt to their surroundings as they grow. She begins to question her human programmers understanding of human life as something separate from the planet they once inhabited – perhaps this is what prompted their departure.

Frog Hollow is a metaphor for the human condition in our present day. Francis shows us that it is not the technology around us that defines and makes us uniquely human, but our ability to adapt and live in coexistence with our home, the planet Earth.