One: Faith of my Friends (2024)

One: Faith of my Friends is a 2024 American live-action/2D animated/Hand-drawn animated fantasy adventure drama film directed by Jared Bush. Based off the object show of the same name, One is a live action/2D-animated/hand-drawn animated film that tells the story of Light, a farm cat, who teleports, alongside 17 other animals and 18 object contestants, teleported in batches of six into the Plane by Airy, who compete in his ill-planned, simplistic competition show where the winner receives a wish for whatever they want.

A sequel, One: The Beginning of The End was released on June 14th 2026

Film Summary
Set in 1989, a farm cat named Light gets transported, along side some other animals and some objects, to “The Plane” to compete in a competition for a wish for anything they want. However, as the game progresses, the mysteries of the Plane as well as the competition are unraveled and some of the contestants develop mental problems from being in the Plane and associated competition. Luckily, Light can cool down the mood. Hopefully.

Plot
Light, a farm cat, has a dream about taking a calm walk in the forest, and then sees three strange silhouettes of a backpack, a soda bottle, and a small candle with eyes and limbs. When she tries to touch the silhouettes, she wakes up due to a distracting noise.

She then sees that six living objects, Backpack (Liam), Scenty (Amelia), Soda Bottle (Bryce), Moldy (Charlotte), Magazine (Taylor) and Tomato (Charlie), along side five other animals, Puffy, a sheep, Oceane, a blue jay, Quackers, a duck, and Tim, a rabbit, were suddenly teleported into The Plane against their will.

There, they meet Airy, who chose these six to participate in their competition called one, in which the winner would be able to grant one wish for anything they want. While Light seems interested, some of the contestants don't want to participate, but Airy just ends up ignoring them or reminds them about the prize.

Due to an accident while the first challenge was being set up, Quackers ends up sacrificing himself and gets crushed to death. As Puffy tells her that tasting his blood is insensitive, Light informs them that it’s just the natural circle of life.

The first challenge is to not touch the ground while starting on top of tall wooden stakes. First two to hit the ground are up for elimination. Tomato immediately fails the challenge, while Backpack, Light, Soda Bottle, Oceane, Scenty and Puffy fall around the same time after holding it out for ~15 minutes.

Backpack and Light were the first to hit the ground verses the other four, in which Light celebrates, and while they survived, his left leg broke during the fall. Light immediately goes to Backpack and performs a quick yet (what she describes as) “relaxing” leg massage to fix his left leg, although the experience wasn't very pleasant for him.

Airy announces that Tomato was voted out, and was sent back to their world. Airy then teleports in six new animals and new contestants, Subway Seat, Fluffy, Contact Lens, Buck, Airline Food, Carl, Whippy Creamy, Amber, Bassy, Speckles, Tray, Carl, and Rusty. These new object contestants come from a different world where humans (or Meat-Giants in animal terminology) use them as objects and they conceal their limbs and faces to hide the fact they're sentient.

After some small talking between the contestants, Airy starts a new challenge, which is to climb atop the wooden stakes. The last three who don't make it are up for elimination. Everyone participates in the competition except for Backpack, Soda Bottle and Scenty, who protest and wish to go home, upsetting Light a little.

Airy and Light both tries to convince them to participate, as Airy by mentioning the prize and lowering the steak to make it easier for them, and as Light by insisting that the game would be fun and they would make a great bond together, but the three still refuse to participate, even when the stake is only a few inches in height from the ground, upsetting Light more, who’s still protesting them to have some fun.

However, Backpack trips and falls on the stake, causing him to win the challenge. Both Soda Bottle and Scenty are worried about Backpack, and they touch the top of the stake and win the challenge so they stay in the Plane to support him. When the challenge ends, Contact Lens, Magazine and Subway Seat are up for elimination. 5 Hours later, Whippy Creamy and Speckles decide to help Subway Seat get back up right, who's been in the same position. Scenty is awaken by Light, although still visually tired, and decides to talk to Magazine.

Magazine mentions how she doesn't wanna be in The Plane any more now that it's freaking her out. She then goes on a rant about how repetitive her life is, but suddenly disappears. While Light tries brushing it off, Scenty is angry at Airy for abruptly teleporting her, though he just responds that she was eliminated and sent back, causing Light to reluctantly agree.

Airy then announces yet another batch of object and animal contestants will be joining the show, which annoys Scenty and Backpack, while it excites Light and Fluffy, who she tells Fluffy that new friends are the best experience. The new contestants are Atom, Gerald, Abstracty, Brittney, Folder, Rocket, Axel, Milk, Circle, Jackie and Wren.

When Abstracty appears, they approach Backpack and transform to try and replicate him. They then give a short introduction pretending to be Backpack, with a very similar voice, as well as knowing that his real name is Liam, amusing Fluffy. This interaction, on the other hand, causes Backpack to faint, worrying Light.

When Wren appears, she approaches Subway Seat, Milk and Whippy Creamy and tells them that she knows everything that has, is, and will happen in the universe (most likely being that she also can predict the future, via seizures, and see both the past, present, and future). Abstracty tries to replicate Moldy, and talks about how she insults others to increase her self image, as well as manipulating her closest friends multiple times. Moldy tries to punch Abstracty, though it doesn't have much of an effect, amazing Light.

When Airy tries to welcome the new contestants, Circle interrupts and doesn't want to participate, trying to walk away instead. Airy on the other hand keeps teleporting him back to his previous position, and ignores his pleas to leave. The music that played for the previous batches of contestants doesn't play this time.

Wren, who had a quick seizure during Circle’s pleas to leave, tries to alert Soda Bottle about something in the sky and for him to move, but he doesn't understand, so she instead pushes him. A few seconds later, a cassette recorder falls from the sky and lands where Soda Bottle was previously standing.

Airy announces that all the contestants will now form teams, with there being 6 teams in total. Soda Bottle, Backpack, Light and Scenty follow Wren, causing Wren to feel a bit anxious, while Backpack mentions to Scenty that he thinks Wren knows a lot more than they do. Soda Bottle explains to her how Wren knew about the cassette player falling from the sky and that it was going to land right where he was standing.

Wren brings in Speckles, and tells Scenty to leave due to there being more than six teammates, protesting that she’s possibly a “bad omen” and Wren only wants to keep others safe. Scenty instead teams up with Tray, Oceane, Bassy, Milk, Contact Lens, and Puffy after hearing them talk about how they wanted to leave The Plane. She also gives her plan for the team to lose every round so they can be eliminated quicker.

Moldy talks to Circle and Fluffy about teaming up, but Circle doesn't wanna participate because he was already in another competition. However, upon learning that the prize is a wish for anything, he, alongside Fluffy, reconsider and teams up with Moldy. After 20 minutes of Whippy Creamy, Buck, and Rusty pushing Subway Seat towards Moldy, Fluffy and Circle, the two ask if they could team up. Moldy is reluctant at first, but after looking back at Abstracty, she changes her mind.

Airy then parts Atom, Rocket, Amber, Folder, Axel, Abstracty, Gerald, Carl, Rocket, Brittney and Airline Food since they are the last ones without a team, despite being more that six.

Struggling to think of a challenge, Airy announces that the next challenge is to run to a distant tree (more like a bush) and back. Only one team member needs to do it, and the last team to complete the challenge is eliminated. Soda Bottle talks to Backpack and Light about how Airy wouldn't let Circle walk away while he allowed them to.

However, Backpack questions if they even tried walking away, so Soda Bottle attempts to walk away from his team. He gets quite a distance before being teleported back to his team. Backpack's team ends up winning because Speckles was able to run long enough to reach the tree. Wren sneaks up on Scenty's team and picks up Contact Lens.

She runs towards the tree while Scenty gives chase. Wren pushes Contact Lens on the tree and throws him to his teammates, which she’s successful in doing and causes Scenty's team to win. Scenty lashes out at Wren and walks back to her team. Airy declares that Atom's team and Moldy's team are the only teams who haven't completed the challenge yet, but Circle interrupts him that they already did the challenge. Airy accepts the team's words, and puts Atom's team up for elimination.

Later, Scenty complains to Light, Backpack and Soda Bottle that Wren forced her team to win the challenge. While Light thinks that it was nice of Wren to do so, Backpack is sorry and tries to make her feel better by mentioning how Speckles won his team the challenge.

Backpack doesn't think there's anything sinister about Wren because she saved Soda Bottle's life and that there's always next time, though Soda Bottle interjects that he's being too optimistic like Light. Scenty ends the conversation by asking them to keep an eye on Wren. Wren hears this, in which this increases her anxiety.

Backpack, Light, Airline Food, Speckles, Scenty, Milk, Atom (off screen) and Rocket observe Abstracty at a distance, whos glitching, deforming, and making weird noises, making the four animals feel uncomfortable. When Airy announces he's gonna eliminate someone, Abstracty attempts to transform and reprelicate someone who's yet to be seen, until suddenly disappearing. Abstracty was eliminated from the competition, upsetting Light a little bit.

Airy then starts a new challenge, draw on some sticky notes for 5 minutes, and the team with the worst drawings is up for elimination. Scenty's team immediately rip up the sticky notes and snap their pencil in protest, making Milk uncomfortable as she and the animal teammates watch. Wren grabs all their team's sticky notes and starts drawing. Backpack repeatedly asks her to stop, but Wren refuses, saying that she shouldn’t have any “interruptions”.

She gives a sticky note to Backpack, which has Wren's name, followed by a bunch of numbers. Backpack doesn't understand it, and tries to rip the note, but Wren takes it out of his hand before he could. Light asks Wren what knowing the past, present, and future is like. Wren responds that it’s a gift too “difficult to control”.

With a minute left, Wren rushes over to Scenty's team to try and steal their sticky notes, but Scenty tell them not to take them and holds their notes down to prevent them from taking the notes, causing Wren’s anxiety to increase more. Light asks if that’s what bad omens do, only for Wren to respond with “almost”. 10 seconds remain, Wren rushes over to Backpack, and opens him up to place the sticky notes in him.

Time's up, and Airy determines that Backpack's team is up for elimination because he can't find any of their sticky notes, shocking both Wren and Light, but Light responds with “Oh well”, stating that it’s not like she was prepared for this challenge anyway. Scenty is angered by Airy's decision, yelling that Backpack's team still has the sticky notes and retells what she saw Wren doing.

Airy doesn't change his mind because he claims he didn't see any of that happen. As Light simply brushes off as a coincidence and tries to calm her friend down, Scenty is furious, yelling and insulting at Airy for putting them in the competition in the first place. Her rant becomes muffled when Wren starts to have a seizure, as she has another future predict, seeing a white silhouette of a cat drowning in a black background.

After her seizure, Wren hesitantly approaches Scenty again to take their sticky notes. Scenty, in defeat, allows her to do so, making Wren smile a little and thanking her. Airy announces they are gonna eliminate someone, even though the votes were counted yet. Wren, with a huge amount of panic and anxiety, rushes over to a less crowded area in view of Light, Backpack and Soda Bottle, and writes on the notes as fast as she can.

She then throws them in the air before suddenly disappearing, meaning that she was eliminated. One by one, the notes fall to the ground, each with a letter on them. Light looks closer and sees that the notes line up to make a message that reads: "VOTES ARE FAKE YOU HAVE NO CONTROL". Light, surprised, promises Wren to tell everyone about you and your abilities and actions.

As Light finished collecting the sticky notes, Airy starts up a new challenge, which is to do 100 pushups, upsetting Light a little, but she accepts it, stating it’s “just a game show she enjoys”. Last team to do them is up for elimination, causing Light to do the pushups as fast as she can, but ends up breaking/cramping her back, taken to Fluffy and Rusty for an ice pack.

Backpack and Soda Bottle just sit in silence while Speckles tries to start a conversation with them, trying to talk about her childhood, family, and home. Scenty arrives back to her team after lashing out at Airy, and once again her team protest doing the challenge so they can be put up for elimination.

Milk tells Oceane and Puffy that she’s unsure about Scenty’s protesting, saying that she wants to have fun like Light said. Meanwhile over at Atom's team, Atom and Rocket lie to Airy that they both did 100 pushups, which he falls for and gives their team immunity.

For Moldy's team, Moldy is doing the 100 push ups while everyone else, including Light and Carl’s team, spectates her. During breaks, her team and Light asks questions about herself, and she does answer them, although with some hesitation. She states she used to go spelunking with friends, but stopped when she started to mold.

She says she got the mold while spelunking, that there weren't any warning of fungus in the cave she went to. She also reveals that she needs $200,000 in order to pay for the treatment to remove her mold, and her friend gave her money but she found it humiliating because she wants to be independent and pay it off herself.

She wants to win the competition so she can get enough money to pay off the treatment fee and get rid of her mold, Light understands this and allows her team to win, wishing Moldy the best of luck.

Moldy was able to do 100 pushups, and her team is safe from elimination. Backpack's and Scenty's team on the other hand remain seated and refuse to do any pushups. Airy decides that if neither of them are going to do the challenge, then both teams are put up for elimination.

Scenty is happy and pleads to the viewers to vote her out. Her plead is slowly muffled as Light decides to sleep through it, hoping to not interfere with anyone.

As Light dreams, we see a flashback to Moldy's final moments before she was teleported to The Plane. Patchwork, a calico stray and friend of Moldy, visits her to check up on how she's doing, but she notices Moldy now has a big flatscreen TV and a expensive smartphone.

After some back and forth, they find out that Moldy spent all of the money Patchwork stole and gave her for her mold treatment on electronics, and Patchwork is furious about it, saying that her health is twice important as anything else. Moldy argues that she shouldn't have gave her money in the first place and that she doesn't need Patchwork’s help.

However Patchwork argues back, saying none of this would have happened if she didn't going spelunking in a cave that had mold, with signs warning about mold, as well as Patchwork trying to out said warnings. Patchwork also reveals Moldy lost a piece of her head because she didn't wear a helmet while spelunking.

Moldy states that she said she didn't need the money, to which Patchwork yells back why she even took the money Patchwork stole. Moldy replies that she felt like she was being huminulated when she was given the money, and that Patchwork only gave the money to pity her and raise themselves to seem like heros.

Patchwork apologizes about giving Moldy the money saying that she’s only doing what’s right and promises that she’ll let her do what’s best for herself, but asks if she could have it back, concerned about the fact that some of the money belonged to meat-giants. Moldy mocks and taunts Patchwork back, but before she could finish, it cuts to black and we hear a sound affect of a car hitting and running over a cat, indicating that must’ve been Patchwork’s death.

After the dream sequence, Scenty's team talks about humans and their relationships to them. Bassy and Contact Lens talk about the humans that own them, while Scenty talks about how she's been thinking about her friends and family, and how worried they may be. Her teammates believe she'll be voted out by the viewers because of how much she wants to leave, upsetting Milk a little, saying that she’ll miss her.

Airy lines everyone up for the elimination process; Scenty's team is smiling and optimistic, while Backpack's team and the animal contestants, except a sleeping light, looks worried and peers at the other contestants. Puffy was the one eliminated from the game. Everyone's smiles turn into frowns, and Scenty drops to her knees.

Light wakes up to that sound and sees that Scenty is seen crying and upset that she wasn't eliminated. She hugs Backpack and Soda Bottle, and then Light hugs her, feeling sympathetic to her, and complains how she thought she would have been eliminated by being so happy for being up for elimination.

Soda Bottle and Light try to tell her about Wren's message, but is interrupted when a giant holo log slams down from the sky. Water then pours into the log, making it somewhat suitable as a pool. Airy then explains the rules for the new challenge, which is to stay afloat in the pool. The first team to have a member fail the challenge is up for elimination.

But while the rules are being stated, Backpack realises that Light's in a dire situation, and asks Soda Bottle and Scenty to help him take Light’s ice pack off. They rush to take the ice pack off, and yell at Airy to pause the count down, but he doesn't listen.

The challenge begins as everyone is teleported into the pool, and Light still has her ice pack on. Light is unable to stay afloat or swim, and slowly sinks towards the bottom of the pool as she struggles to swim up. Scenty notices Light and swims down to try to save her. Soda Bottle also tries to help, but can't swim down as his body forces him to stay afloat.

Scenty swims down towards Light to save her, but is too late as she runs out of breath and drowns. The music fades and the screen turns to black. There is nothing but muffled and distorted water sounds for the next 20 seconds.

Light wakes up in what’s presumed to be the afterlife, as she sees her parents in a distance, which surprises her, revealing that her parents died while she and her littermates were still tiny kittens. Light tries brush it off as a small visit and waits for Airy to recover her. However, a voice, presumably an angel’s voice, tells her Airy will never recover her.

Light tries to understand this logic, confused about what the angel said and telling them that her best friend job is to be with her best friends till the very end. The angel corrects her, and then states that now her best friend job is to be dead. Light is shocked and upset about what she heard, but is happy, as her parents reconcile her, that she can now be with her parents again.

As Light embraces her parents, the screen fades to back and remains like that as a song called “The End” by Frankie Cosmos plays. After the song, it cuts back to meanwhile as we see Oceane managing to pull light out of the pool as Airy announces that Backpack and Soda Bottle are up for elimination.

After a few pulse checking, a remorseful Oceane responds to Backpack by whispering “I’m sorry”, informing him that Light has died. Backpack's jaw drops and falls to his knees. Scenty and Soda Bottle run to him, asking if Light's ok and what Oceane whispered to him. However he does not respond to them, even when they try to get his attention and push him a little.

The animals grieve for Light as Scenty and Soda Bottle are still trying to get Backpack to respond to them. As the animals grieve, Speckles talks to Fluffy about what she was doing before she was teleported into The Plane. Fluffy then tells Speckles about what she was also doing, saying that she was resting after her flight when her meat-giant left.

Speckles brings up that this is probably going to be the last time Light’s three friends will see each other, since Backpack and Soda Bottle are up for elimination. Fluffy then asks Speckles if anyone's ever noticed how all the grass points directly towards the sun. The camera then pans to the sun, and Speckles only responds with “I have”.

As everyone adds flowers to Light’s grave, Airy announces to the contestants that he added clouds to the sky. Team C (except Moldy) admire the clouds, while Backpack is seen in the background, sitting with a sad and worried expression on his face, right next to Light’s grave.

Four rocks then fall out of the sky, one for each team. The challenge is to throw the rock into the pool, and the last team to do so is up for elimination. However while Airy is stating the rules, Moldy throws her team's rock into the pond. Despite completing the challenge before Airy could finish counting down when to begin the challenge, Team C still gets granted immunity.

Perspective switches to Team B, who once again, refuse to do the challenge. The team talk to each other, but Scenty focuses on Backpack, who continues to sit next to Light’s grave with a miserable expression. Soda Bottle is also nowhere to be seen, meaning he was eliminated between this and the aftermath of Light’s death. Tray interrupts Scenty's focus, asking if she wants to teach more yoga, to which she agrees.

Meanwhile over at Team D, Airline Food and Rocket attempt to do the challenge, but screw up the first throw. He walks over to pick up the rock, which landed right in front of Folder. He gets the idea to ask them to throw the rock, but this backfires as Folder instead talks about rock throwing rather than doing it.

Airline Food gets frustrated, while Rocket is intrigued, and questions Folder's purpose to help people. Folder then interrupts him and talks about their purpose, to which Airline Food gets very annoyed and throws the rock at them. The rock bounces off of Folder's hand, and lands into the pool, making his team win the challenge. Airline Food is confused about what just happened.

Backpack, still sitting next to Light’s grave, picks up his rock and stares at it. He then begins to hallucinate. More and more leaves appear from the ground, the rock is deforming and distorting more and more each second, and voices mimics him and his friend’s protest to leave and then mimics Light’s upset response to their protest.

The world then turns into blue sticky notes as it disappears into faint spirals. The rock he was once holding now resembles an angel, who says to him in an upset and sad tone that Light only wanted them to have fun, and yells why and why he wouldn’t appreciate Light’s thought of the game and yells/wails about not saving her, having her happy, and shows flashing images of Light drowning and slowly decaying in her grave.

The world fades back in as the hallucination ends, and Backpack is startled and shaking. He sets the rock down and shields his eyes with his hands in distraught and grief, still upset about Light’s death.

Scenty is spectating Backpack and saw what happened. Tray asks her what to do next, as her team is doing a yoga session. Scenty abandons the yoga session, and throws her team's rock into the pool. She is successful, and her team is granted immunity.

The animals are surprised and Milk asks her why she did that, and Scenty replies, "Something I should have done a while ago." Team A is up for elimination, and because Backpack is the only one in the team, he is the one who will be eliminated, shocking all of the animals.

Scenty approaches Backpack, to which he asks why she let her team win. She says he doesn't deserve to be here, that he doesn't deserve to see and experience all the horrible things that happened to him in The Plane, including having to learn about Light’s death, and that he is the one who deserves to leave the most.

Milk and Speckles spectate, while a slowed instrumental version of “The End” Plays, as Milk is smiling and becoming proud of her teammate. Scenty tears up as she apologizes to Backpack for being selfish and prioritizing herself over him, and that Light didn’t deserve to drown and that Light deserves better. Backpack says it's ok, but she denies and says she would be very relieved knowing he's back home, even if that meant she had to stay in The Plane for longer.

Backpack stands up, begins to tear up, and hugs Scenty. Milk smiles more and tells Speckles that she’s proud of Scenty. Speckles responds that the world “is full of surprises”. She then tells Milk that she isn't sure about what they'll both do during their time here, other than maybe trying to figure out what The Plane is and what it’s motivations are. Milk replies that they might get far trying to understand The Plane, and that it doesn't really have a lesson or info to offer that will help Backpack back home.

After joking around, Milk asks her how long does she think they have been in The Plane. Speckles randomly guesses around 8 days, as she theorizes that each challenge cycle is around 12 to 20 hours, saying that she’s a king’s cheetah and cheetahs can sometimes know both the fastest and slowest of times. Milk thought it felt longer due there being no night time in The Plane. She says she thinks it'll take at most a week a year for each of them to leave The Plane.

Speckles agrees, saying it depends on who will leaves and then mentioning that Puffy and Wren were the first two animals to get eliminated and that there are 16 more animals to go and there are 12 more objects to go. Speckles also is happy for the two, saying that Light would’ve been happy to see this if she was still alive. The two hope everyone, including themselves, for the best and end their conversation, as they both watch the other two embrace, this time with Speckles smiling along with Milk.

Airy announces his presents and prepares for the elimination process, who'll be Backpack because his team was up for elimination and he's the only one left on the team. But before Airy could eliminate Backpack, he's interrupted by a series of slipping and ripping sounds, before yelling in pain with a glass shattering sound. His whines and moans of pain get quieter until Airy can't be heard anymore.

Two hours passed, and Airy hasn't returned. Everyone is worried, but Backpack realizes that without Airy's presence, he's free to roam around The Plane without being teleported around by him. He continues to walk, as Speckles and Rocket follow him, until he discovers a giant AUX plug and cable that's plugged into The Plane. The camera zooms out, and it turns out The Plane appears to be a tiny planet, or is at least in the shape of a planet.

5 months have passed, and focus shifts towards what the characters have been doing with the absence of Airy and the aftermath of Light’s death. Airline Food, Tray and Subway Seat are doing yoga with Scenty as the guide. Whippy Creamy uses Folder as an audiobook program. The gang have used the wooden stakes Airy placed to build a shack.

Subway Seat learned how to walk using his hands and arms as legs. Moldy's mold condition has worsened and she is isolating herself from the others. Bassy has been a static object ever since Airy disappeared, concerning Fluffy and Rocket. Generally though, mostly everyone's been more cooperative to each other.

Circle announces to Scenty's group and Whippy Creamy that they're gonna attempt to remove the last wooden stake out of the ground. Subway marks down the "shift" on the pool, and tries to get Contact Lens and Moldy to help remove the stake, though Moldy declines.

Atom and Speckles goes to "The Plug" to find Backpack, but after failing to find him, they return to the wooden stake to find him with the other contestants trying to remove the wooden stake. After some coordinated pushes, the wooden stake tips and falls flat on the ground.

Everyone celebrates their success, and everyone but Backpack heads to the pool, which Rocket states it’s where Light died. Scenty does speak to him before he leaves though, saying how he's been more involved ever since letting go of Light’s passing, and that he's happier this way. Fluffy also states that it’s a good thing he doesn’t have Necrophobia (fear of dead bodies).

Backpack instead visits "the plug" again, and in a series of flashbacks, most of them involving Light and her death, he's gotten so frustrated and confused about it that he's tried pulling the plug out, as well as punching, kicking, and throwing the broken cassette player at the plug.

The plug has many scratches and dents from Backpack's abuse, but he still hasn't been able to unplug it. Switching back to the present, he admits defeat, and picks up the broken pieces of the tape recorder. Fluffy tells Milk and the other animals about this and ask them if one of them dies, they would mention this to Light. Milk, who’s concerned about the news, agrees, saying that Light should know what others are doing since her passing.

An additional 2 months pass, and Backpack and Scenty are playing a board game out of the wood they've harvested from the stakes as Fluffy is fast asleep. Suddenly, Airy announces that he's back, and that he will start the elimination soon. As Fluffy, who woke up, is relived that he’s alive (also responding with “Thank Light!”) Backpack and Scenty are shocked by this news, and Backpack is scared and breathing heavily.

Meanwhile, the camera focuses on the outside world, showing the cold chilling streets of New York City. The sound of rain and Airy humming can be heard, though Airy is not present on screen. We also see Wren, who appears to have a photo of what’s presumed for be Airy’s actual form and what’s presumed to be Wren’s father, indicating that Airy was a friend of her father and knows about Wren, who appears to be sleeping.

She wakes up when a meat-giant pets her and then gives her a piece of chicken before walking away. After Wren eats the chicken, she looks up to the rainy sky, as she hopes that the others are doing safe and avoiding bad omens. As Wren was about to go back to sleep, she has a quick seizure about a voice telling her about Light’s family. She quickly gets up and runs across the street as fast as she can, leaving behind the photo as the camera slowly pans to it, before the screen cuts to black.

Everyone but Moldy, Folder and Brassy approaches Backpack, to witness his final moments before being teleported back. They stare in silence waiting for the inevitable, Scenty even cries a little. Suddenly Backpack is teleported back to San Francisco, on the same bridge he was on before he was teleported to The Plane.

Backpack walks towards the building he works at, struggling due to the harsh winds. However, he discovers that the building is up for lease now, and has effectively been laid off. He continues to walk down the street, and finds a local public bulletin board.

He sees a piece of paper that mentions him, and upon further reading, is shocked to find out that he is presumed dead. As he walks further down the street, he sees some road workers using a jackhammer. The site makes him recall when Light drowned and died in The Plane. Backpack continues to walk until he notices that it's beginning to hail.

He rushes behind a nearby firing range building to seek shelter from the hail. As the camera focuses on that, the credits roll with the song “Faith of my Friends” by Frankie Cosmos, ending the film.

In a post credit scene, Backpack, while still sitting, sees a black cat named Dark, who he reveals himself as one of Light’s siblings, and gives him a map, stating that a strange gray fox (Wren) wants Dark to give it to him and takes out the notes that Wren placed inside of him, and takes them out to read them.

Most of the notes list a name, which are Wren, Airy, and the initials SF, followed by a long series of numbers. Backpack is confused by the notes and doesn't understand what they mean.

However, the last sticky note lists an address to an apartment located in Bridgeport. Backpack is surprised by this last note, and ponders the dark sky before the screen cuts to black, ending the post credit scene.

Live Action

 * Frank Welker as Farmer John, Abigail’s uncle and the owner of Sparky. He only appears in the beginning of the film
 * Ariana Greenblatt as Abigail, John’s niece and the owner of Light and Dark. She only appears in the beginning of the film.

Animated
The object cast voice themselves


 * Haley Tju as Light, a white farm cat and sister of Dark, Jasper and Misty.
 * Erica Luttrell as Wren, a gray fox that knows about the past, present, and future. She can also predict the future through sleeps and seizures.
 * Tara Strong as Puffy, a white sheep and best friend/sidekick of Oceane.
 * Deedee Magno Hall as Oceane, a blue jay and best friend of Puffy.
 * Matthew Moy as Quackers, a duck who dies from being impaled by a large pole.
 * Tony Hale as Buck, a mouse.
 * Sam Rockwell as Tim, a rabbit.
 * Craig Robinson as Carl a squirrel.
 * Anna Kendrick as Fluffy, a honey glider.
 * Awkwafina as Amber, a golden retriever.
 * Novie Edwards as Speckles, a kings cheetah.
 * Reagan Gomez-Preston as Brittney, a wolf.
 * Guy Pearce as Rocket, a wallaby.
 * Ian Jones-Quartey as Gerald, a badger.
 * Gustavo Dudamel as Rusty, a golden mongoose (his personality is similar to Lyre from AIB).
 * Angus Imrie as Axel, a koala.
 * Charlyne Yi as Milk, an albino polecat-ferret hybrid.
 * Tim Minchin as Jackie, a kangaroo rat.
 * Ashley Johnson as Patchwork, a calico stray and an old friend of Moldy.
 * Chris Pratt as Dark, a black farm cat and the brother of Light, Jasper and Misty who shows up at the beginning and end of the film.
 * Harrison Ford as Sparky, Farmer John’s pet sheepdog who taught Light and Dark how to herd sheep when they were kittens. He only appears at the beginning of the film.

Trivia

 * In a deleted scene, the time was originally gonna be set in Christmas of 1989. That date was changed soon after the scene was cut.
 * Director Jared bush states Wren’s view of Scenty being a “bad omen” is supposed to forshadow Light’s drowning. Because of her selfishness and desperation to get back home, Scenty was able to indirectly cause Light’s death.

Songs

 * Little Patch of Heaven (K.d. lang) (before title opening song)
 * Happy Together (The Turtles) (opening title song)
 * We won cause we’re a duo (Haley Tju) (scene where Light celebrates)
 * The End (Frankie Cosmos) (scene where Light reunites her parents, a slowed instrumental version plays as Scenty explains why she put him up for elimination)
 * Imaginary Friend (Anthony Kos) (montage through the city near the end of the film before Dark shows up)
 * Faith of my Friends (Frankie Cosmos) (end credits)
 * Take a look through my eyes (Phil Collins) (end credits)
 * Dream (Imagine Dragons) (end credits)
 * Bestest Friends (Olivia Newton-John) (end credits)

Taglines

 * “Ever wanted to know what they were doing while you were away?” - Teaser poster, Main poster
 * ”From the meat-giants that brought you Encanto and Soul” - Main poster
 * “This snow-colored cat is gonna have more than she bargained for” - Light’s poster
 * “EXIT 100-9 MILES” - Speckle’s poster
 * ”Don’t judge this fox by her name and appearance. She’s more than everyone expects” - Wren’s poster
 * ”Warning: contains adorableness” - Fluffy’s poster