In the future we'll have our personal cleaners. Not to dust around, but to sort out our own bodies. From this premise comes a one hour comedy/drama with models, puppets and an intriguing set. Behind a thin transparent curtain (membrane?) a man is trying to work (with the curtain acting as his computer screen). Frustrated, he calls up his personal intronaut, asking her to perform some cleaning operations.
We switch to the interior of the miniaturised mini-submarine that moves around his body performing maintenance tasks, and the single crew member who, in contrast to her uptight host, is is wacky, energetic and enthusiastic. Mixing the live action with puppets and scale models we see her performing her tasks, coping with frustrations, always happy.
Until the man asks her to go to his brain. He's sad and wants her to find the switch that will make him happy again. Reluctant at first she decides to accede to his wishes and the results are unpredictable. The man is given an insight into who he might have been.
There's a good story in there, but not fully realised. It takes too long to move the action into the brain where the possibilities for moral explorations were endless, and that failure to attempt to gain some understanding is frustrating. But that doesn't prevent this being an enjoyable way to spend an hour. The acting is good, there are a lot of laughs, and the use of puppets, models and graphics is engaging and clever. It's even more impressive when you see that only three performers were needed to create all we'd seen before us.
A missed opportunity but a lot of fun.
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