Maria Judice

A traveler reluctantly returns to Earth.

After witnessing a murder of a young boy by a cop on her doorstep, Maria finds her mental health struggling. At thirty-seven, violence and death compound into a fear of the outside. As she self-isolates, she unpacks individual, collective, and generational trauma. Her beloved community keeps her connected with frequent care visits. elephant is a visual meditation on the physiology of grief.

While searching for her father, Nikki meets her half-sister Winter for the first time on the streets of San Francisco. The girls join up continuing the search through the city's underbelly. The journey is abandoned only after finding a friendship in each other.