Napping Princess

Synopsis

This genre-defying film is set in a near-future world dominated by machinery. Kokone ought to be focusing on her university entrance exams, but she keeps drifting off to sleep. Beyond wasting precious study time, her napping proves even more troublesome because it triggers strange dreams filled with battling machines—dreams that point to long-buried family secrets. She cannot turn to her father, a hipster mechanic whose talent and artistry far exceed what his job demands, since he is perpetually lost in his own whimsical projects modifying motorcycles and cars. What are these visions that simultaneously draw Kokone closer to her family and push her further away? Like the finest anime, this film revels in layered fantasy to reveal how opposites—waking and dreaming, the past and the future—are often far more connected than they seem.