Open with a long shot over Los Angeles, the camera zooming in on a house in the hills, nice but not egregiously so. There we follow a young COOP, who is playing in the shallow end of the pool. His mother is laying out on an adirondack chair, a large straw hat covering her eyes. He gets distracted by the arrival of his father through the sliding glass doors. He runs along the side of the pool, slipping on a puddle, and falling into the deep end of the pool. His parents talk for a moment before realizing what has happened. We fade to black. COOP is still coughing up pool water while covered in a towel, but he's recovering. His mother hands him some ice cream and mumbles things in fast-paced Italian. His dad is nowhere to be seen. Cut to him standing in front of his father's locked office door.

Years pass. His mother is supporting him, applauding him, taking care of him, and otherwise being the best cheerleader that a young boy could have. There are several shots of his father shutting his door in COOP's face. Really zoom in at each slam--make the audience feel the neglect. His mother tries to bandage the pain the only way she knows how is with smothering and food. Pan over to a rather chubby (read obese, but no one wants to see that on the screen) COOP being teased in class. The laughter mixes in with the slamming of the door, and his mother trying to bandage things further with cooking.

The calendar flips by and shows the solid progression of years, and we see that his teenage years are kind to him as he hits a major growth spurt. That's doubled with lots of shots of him running through his upper-class neighborhood, styling his hair to match whatever is popular on Instagram, better clothing choices, and a slowly growing confidence. But there are some worrying cuts to him eyeing his scales and marking progress on a vague, unnamed fitness application. We're going to remove the troubling scenes of him at his psychiatrist's office. No discussion of his body dysmorphia. We may bring up his ADHD for relatable laughs later on in the story.

This newfound confidence leads him to take on a plethora of activities. Yet, the one that sticks is drama. We see him move up from background actors, to the top ensemble, and to the lead. And--he's pretty good. We then cut to his mother opening the door to his father's office and discovering him in the midst of some scandalous, though humorous, adultery. There are scenes of them at a couple's counseling, the shots quickly transition to show them wearing different outfits conveying the passage of time. Slowly they start on opposite ends of the couch but slowly come together. The last one is them back in love with a full-on kiss. This transitions to them booking couples vacations, not showing up to COOP's events, and not picking him up after events.

More calendar flips, and that escalates to COOP doing more and more for attention. Out of the radical things he tries, he actually starts putting in for liberal arts colleges. The results aren't bad, but he's still in school. He has time. Time that he's alone in the house, acting out for attention. That leads to him in his late teens trying to get a selfie of him against the LA skyline in a risky shot that relies on him leaning off the side of one of the many cliffs. Well, he slips. The height is more or less fatal. But he blacks out in the middle of it. Then wakes up, entirely naked, in quite a crater. He's completely unscathed, and there's a crowd on the cliff above him taking pictures, while a park ranger asks him if he's okay while holding a towel. COOP covers himself--wait for laughs--and the ranger hands him his towel and his phone. The phone has a cracked screen, but the audience can still hear the digitized dings and can read the incoming messages. Someone tagged him in a video, and the comments are not--great. The camera shows COOP's face as it goes from confusion to panic to embarrassment. He throws his phone off the mountain. The park ranger just stares. COOP asks if he could call an Uber.

A few cuts to the doctor's office, maybe a few shots of a CT scan, or ultrasound, or something that looks medical and intimidating. You see the doctor shake his head at COOP's parents, who stare at their son in disbelief. Another hard cut back to COOP practically destroying the insides of a fridge, and arguing with his mother--but the audience can't hear the argument. "Hungry Like the Wolf," by Duran Duran plays over it. The audience can gather that COOP is constantly hungry and can't help himself. More intense checking of his weight app as it goes up. But he looks in the mirror, and if anything he only looks thinner and more jacked. Something is definitely wrong here.

The entire thing escalates when his father hands him a brochure for a school very far away from LA for his "problem" which leads to another fight. The dad says something along the lines of COOP "weighing too much for the infrastructure of the house to hold him." That panics him. We can just assume he's weird about his weight. Remember we cut the body dysmorphia bit from earlier. Then BOOM, wide shot to the house crumbling around them. The red and white lights of the firetruck paint the family. The father is a little bloody and bruised, the mother is covered in sheetrock dust, and COOP is naked--again--and angrily grabs the pamphlet from his father's hand.

Cut to Vancouver, Canada for shooting as it is way cheaper, and the school is set in Canada. COOP steps off the bus, and it rocks as he does. But the kids around him ignore it. He drops his bag on the ground and smiles a little at that fact. He takes a selfie, as his new Instagram journey has started.