“You’re an inventive people, aren’t you?”

Fundamentally curious and ambitious, Jake and Maren both grew up with an innate sense that something wasn’t quite right in the world. Following a path of creativity, world-travel, extreme sports, and dietary experimentation, Jake became a vegan and found that path did not work for him, leaving him with far more questions than answers. Maren followed a more conventional path, studying psychology, anthropology, and creative writing in university and graduating with a BS in 2019, all with the intention to eventually work in some sort of humanitarian field. Feeling dislocated and helpless to make the world a better place, despair took over. Jake and Maren met each other at just the right time, and emboldened within each other a shared passion to do something about the wrongness they had always felt. They began with a hypothesis of how to solve the problems of the world, and found themselves on a quest that shocked and surprised them as they began to untangle the web of interconnected problems that we face as a species. Instead of coming to a conclusion about what can be done to solve the problems of the world, their path follows the questions and quandaries they faced in making this film, and instead have arrived at a thesis as to how we got here, and what we do about it, well, that remains to be seen. We haven’t invented it yet.