Ripe

Cassie is a year into her dream job as head writer at a glittering, cutthroat Silicon Valley startup—burnt out, sleep-deprived, and quietly coming apart. Since childhood she has been shadowed by a small black hole that only she can see, one that swells and shrinks with her despair. As her CEO's demands cross ethical and legal lines and an unplanned pregnancy upends everything, Cassie must reckon with ambition, precarity, and the widening void at the center of her life. A surreal, mordant, magical-realist portrait of one millennial woman navigating a late-capitalist hellscape.