On the set of Yappy Hour, a scrappy children’s TV show approaching its 300th episode, Otis, one of its beloved puppet stars, is unraveling. When the show is renewed for 3 more years, Otis spirals into despair, wanders the streets of Los Angeles, and in a final moment of dispare throws himself from a bridge.

Otis wakes in a surreal workshop where he is confronted by the Puppeteer who created him, and as the man begins to stitch him back together, the two enter into a darkly funny reckoning about failure, purpose, and the aching need to matter. In this strange in-between space, creator and creation begin to realize they are not separate at all, but reflections of the same wounded soul.

As the truth comes into focus, it becomes clear that Otis’s collapse is really the outward expression of The Puppeteer’s own burnout, self-loathing, and fear that his life’s work has meant nothing. In the end, Meeting Your Maker becomes a surreal, handmade meditation on artistic despair, resilience, and the strange grace of choosing to go on.