Eight-year-old Tsubasa struggles with feeling ‘ordinary’, while his classmate Gyotaro is the ‘exceptional’ child whom everyone admires. Although they seem to have nothing in common at first glance, they forge a close friendship and carve out a private universe of their own, insulated from the world around them. However, a slight fracture in their daily lives alters their bond in a way that proves hard to reverse.

Blending traditional animation with the rotoscoping technique, We Are Aliens constructs a reality that feels simultaneously familiar and unsettling. With a bittersweet tone, the film explores the enduring wounds that peer bullying inflicts on a child's soul - scars that do not easily fade.