Tilt

Annie, a 35-year-old woman who is nine months pregnant, navigates an IKEA store in Portland, Oregon, while looking for a crib. It is the first day of her maternity leave from her job as an office manager at a tech company. Annie addresses her unborn child as Bean as she confesses her thoughts, feelings, and insecurities to the baby. She thinks about her financial difficulties and the argument she had with her husband, Dom, the night before. He is an aspiring actor and was offered a last-minute understudy role in a play. While he wanted to skip his shift at the café he works at and attend the rehearsal, Annie asked him not to since they need the money from his job. Dom agreed to turn down the role, but he was unhappy about it. 

A toddler named Spencer bumps into Annie and touches her belly before his harried-looking mother apologizes. Annie is annoyed but polite. When she discovers that her chosen crib is out of stock, she asks for help from a customer service employee with asymmetrical blonde hair and cheetah-print nails—the narrative later reveals that her name is