Richard’s girlfriend expects him to move in with her and her seven-year-old daughter, but troubled by forbidden feelings about his role as a father, he makes the painful decision to leave. Determined to live a solitary life, he returns to his childhood home to prepare it for sale. There, he meets Stella, his mother’s caregiver. When he learns that Stella performs online as a childlike Lolita, he is driven to confront his own desires. Confined together in the house, they form a surrogate parent–child bond that eases their unmet needs, each finding in the other what they lack. Their relationship is tested when the child Richard left behind re-enters his life, demanding his attention. CUTE is a kind of love story about a man longing for childhood innocence and a woman yearning to reclaim hers.
