Pich: When the Door Opens is an emotional, character-driven drama about resilience, trust, and quiet miracles.
Jessy is a strong but exhausted single mother trying to build a cleaning company from scratch while secretly dreaming of creating a safe home for abused women and children. She carries the weight of responsibility, fear, and financial pressure — yet refuses to give up.
Edem enters her life not as a savior, but as a partner. Their relationship grows slowly through work, shared values, and mutual respect. Together they face constant obstacles: hostile competitors, repeated authority inspections, financial instability, and public attacks meant to destroy Jessy’s reputation.
Just when the pressure becomes unbearable, something extraordinary happens.
Holly, an eight-month-old baby, becomes the quiet emotional center of the story — a symbol of innocence, truth, and change. Without words, Holly reacts to emotions, danger, and love in ways that seem almost magical, guiding the adults when they are lost.
As Jessy’s business survives relentless attacks and her relationship with Edem deepens, the story builds toward a powerful emotional climax: marriage, a new home, and the revelation of new life — not as a fairytale ending, but as a fragile, hopeful beginning.
The film closes not with perfection, but with truth: life is still complicated, money is still tight, and problems remain —
but love, trust, and courage have opened a door that will never fully close again.
This is not a story about being saved.
It is a story about standing up — and allowing love to stand beside you.
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I love these pieces, Alex Olguin, especially the last one!
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I love the artwork and character design, Alex Olguin ! When pitching, you can reference "The Iron Giant" as the boy/robot relationship is what makes your story similar. Studios like to be able to refe...
Expand commentI love the artwork and character design, Alex Olguin ! When pitching, you can reference "The Iron Giant" as the boy/robot relationship is what makes your story similar. Studios like to be able to reference familiar movies. And your adding AI to the story is very timely too.
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William Joseph Hill In fact I have a full on pitch deck with a pitch document that defines this as The Iron Giant meets 1984 (George Orwell). It's a satirical comentary con parenthood, since the paren...
Expand commentWilliam Joseph Hill In fact I have a full on pitch deck with a pitch document that defines this as The Iron Giant meets 1984 (George Orwell). It's a satirical comentary con parenthood, since the parents of the main character are also very interesting too, specially the dad. But if anyone wants to check the package I'm open to share it. Thanks by the way, I really worked hard to make the drawings show what I needed them to, a gentle giant and a vulnerable but energetic kid.