Hiro's Journey

An immersive experience into the magical, mystical world of mycelium, its networks and how it can solve the issues of plastic pollution on this planet.

Mycelium, neither plant nor animal, its own kingdom of life, has been quietly at work under the surface of the planet for over a billion years. It gave us penicillin. It gave us shiitake and reishi. It lives inside every one of us, in a mycobiome we’re only beginning to understand. Shot through Louie Schwartzberg’s signature macro and time-lapse cinematography, and narrated through the voice of Hiro, a child who meets the “friendly” mycelium — the good ones, culinary-grade and non-toxic, working the way probiotics work in a gut. Not villains, not saviors. Just quiet workers doing what they’ve always done: taking what’s finished and turning it into what’s next.