The Trouble with Being Born

The film explores the topos of the artificial human, presented here in an unusual way with a focus on the emotional level.[6] Elli is an android, a machine, in the shape of a girl, as well as a sex robot.[6] Elli lives with Georg, whom she calls "Papa". They drift through a summer, swimming in the pool during the day and in the evening he takes her to bed with him. Georg created Elli from a personal memory, to make himself happy. A memory that means nothing to her and everything to him. For Elli, it is merely the programming she follows. When she later meets her real-life role model, an odyssey develops that increasingly brings the audience to Elli's perspective. The dystopian film portrays "the story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us".