Development for the seventeen-minute short started in 2021, when Walden presented the idea to fellow Gummy Films' founders, Pauline Chalamet and Luca Balser, who joined as producers.

It was shot on 16mm Kodak film, in Long Island and upstate New York, and did not follow a conventional script, being entirely improvised.

[2] Walden was inspired to write the script, after hearing her grandfather tell the story about a road trip he had gone on with his own father as a kid.

"[3] In 2021, Walden sent her fellow Gummy Films co-founders, Pauline Chalamet and Luca Balser, a one-page document re-telling her family's story.

[5][3][6] Walden's wanted it to be done on film, because she had interest in capturing, "the memory of this event or evoking this kind of feeling that this is a retelling of an early experience of trauma as a child.

[5] The director exchanged the tree from the original story, for a rabbit, as they thought it worked poetically on paper but, "we felt it didn’t have a lot of energy".