The Vexed Platypus (Kids Shortfilm Synopsis)

KNORR is a young platypus that has not encountered his ancestral origins. He’s confused and overwhelmed, he’d become vexed and curmudgeon. One day, while he was near the Sprig River, he saw an old armadillo flipped face-up, dying, incapable of moving and gasping for help. Knorr ignored him; he was selfish and careless about other animal’s problems. He stared for a while to that moribund animal but did nothing, until he died. When he approached him, the armadillo was vanishing in front of his eyes, full of lights and lifting through the air magically. Knorr was confused and scared when the armadillo’s spirit talked to him “My name is DILL, and I’m a native guru. You haven’t helped me to avoid death so now you’re cursed by the ancestors. If you want to avoid this curse, you will need to travel through the forest and climb up the Sprung Mountains to discover the cure of this damnation”.

Knorr then starts a life-changing journey that would reveal not only the cure for this curse, but also who he really is and why he has this vexed attitude towards life and everyone. Along the trip, comes XOLY, a young and charming xoloesquincle girl that is lost in the forest and lonely because all animals think she’s so ugly, she doesn’t deserve to live among everyone else. Xoly will teach Knorr a lesson about self-confidence, friendship, overcome adversity and the path of self-identity. Knorr will start to fall in love with her as their friendship grows stronger along the trip.

An adventurous journey full of surprises and obstacles that they will overcome learning one from another, with predators rounding them and a treacherous snake named ZORATH that will try to corrupt their friendship and losing them on the way, they will soon learn that love, confidence and self-esteem are the most powerful values of life and that they have the tools to change their destinies.