SYNOPSIS

Things wobble before they fall.

Leaves tremble on their branches before the wind carries them away. A ripe apple wobbles on its stem before dropping to the ground. A loose stone shifts under your foot before disappearing down a hill. Even a wave wobbles at the edge of the shore before it breaks and vanishes.

Perhaps everything that leaves us begins with a little wobble.

For five-year-old Lou, that wobble begins in her mouth.

One morning, she discovers that her milk tooth is loose.

It is only a tiny tooth, but Lou has been through a lot with it. It has been there for countless bites, crooked smiles, birthday cakes, apples and all the little moments that have made her who she is.

And now it is leaving.

Lou is frightened by the thought of saying goodbye. She is frightened that it will hurt. She is frightened of the empty space it will leave behind. And, perhaps most of all, she is frightened of what the other children at school will think when they see her smile.

Everyone tells her that this is how growing up works. The old tooth has to make room for a new one - stronger, healthier and bigger.

But knowing that something better is coming doesn't make letting go any easier.

So Lou decides to hold on.

And as she struggles to keep her wobbly tooth exactly where it is, she begins to face a much bigger question than whether she can save one tiny tooth :

How do we let go of something we love when we know that something new is waiting to grow in its place?

THEME

Wobble is a story about the fear of change - and about the very first time a child encounters it.

Losing a milk tooth is an ordinary childhood milestone, but from a child's perspective, it can feel enormous and frightening. It is a small, physical sign that something familiar is changing - and that growing up means leaving something behind.

But the story is not only about growing up. It is about change in all its forms - the moments in life when we know that something new may be better for us, and yet still desperately want to hold on to what we have.

The film explores this strange contradiction : sometimes we can understand that change is necessary, welcome and even exciting, while still being afraid of what we have to leave behind.

Because knowing that something is good for us does not necessarily make saying goodbye any easier.

NOTE OF INTENTION

I wanted to tell a story about letting go without making it a lesson about letting go.

We often talk about change as if it were something simple : the old must disappear so that the new can grow. We say that we should embrace change, move forward, leave the past behind.

But emotionally, it is rarely that easy.

Even as adults, we can struggle to leave behind things we know are no longer right for us. A home, a relationship, a habit, a place, a version of ourselves. We can understand intellectually that something new is waiting for us and still feel frightened by the moment of separation.

For a child, there is no intellectual distance yet. A milk tooth is not a metaphor. It is simply their tooth. Something familiar, physical and precious.

This is what makes Lou's story both funny and deeply emotional to me.

I want the film to begin almost like a philosophical meditation on all the things in the world that wobble before they disappear. Then, little by little, the scale becomes smaller and smaller - until we discover that this enormous question about change is actually happening inside the mouth of a five-year-old girl.

The humor comes from this contrast: the film treats a tiny loose tooth with the gravity of an existential crisis.

But underneath the humor is a very real first experience of loss.

Lou doesn't need to learn that change is good. She needs to discover something more subtle : that it is possible to be scared of losing something and still let it go.

And perhaps that is where growing up begins.