A childless couple, desperate to ease their wife's pain, create a wooden sculpture of a child from a stump in their backyard. The wife becomes obsessed with the root, treating it as her own baby, and to their surprise, it begins to show signs of life. However, the root's insatiable appetite poses a unique challenge for the couple as they navigate this unconventional parenting experience.
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A couple, desperate to start a family, concocts a scheme to deceive their friends and neighbors by presenting a sentient tree stump as their newborn child, but their ruse soon spirals out of control as the tree stump begins to develop its own needs and demands.