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Hippo explores the coming of age of two step-siblings: Hippo, a teenage boy addicted to video games, and Buttercup, a Hungarian Catholic immigrant with a love of classical music and Jesus. Like the ancient Greek Aphrodite, Buttercup’s love is unrequited by a brother who prefers to indulge in the arts of war and mayhem. The result is a hormone-fueled, tragicomic coming-of-age nightmare that has to be seen to be believed.