Remarkably Bright Creatures

In the middle of the night, Cameron wanders into Elizabeth and Brad’s kitchen, searching for a phone charger. Elizabeth, heavily pregnant, appears with a glass of water—up for one of her many nightly trips to the bathroom. She and Cameron, who have been friends since childhood, talk quietly in the dark. She encourages him to leave California, to go explore the world. After she returns to bed, Cameron opens the box of his mother’s belongings, hoping to find something worth pawning. Most of it is junk—used lipstick, old school essays, concert stubs—until he comes across a photo of a teenage Daphne hugging an unknown boy, and a class ring engraved with “Sowell Bay High School, Class of 1989”.