Doll collecting past childhood turns out to have its own subculture, and the film follows four adults inside it. Mike still lives with his parents and his boyfriend, and the camera catches him nervous and excited before his first Barbie convention, a hobby he hid as a kid and only embraced fully after coming out. Michael, known as Robo-Mike, strips Barbies down to their metal armatures in a workshop cluttered with tools and spare parts, repurposing the skeletons for an animated project that turns dolls into robots. David collects silicon love dolls and treats them as art rather than sex toys, attending gatherings with others who share the interest, while his wife looks on with mixed feelings. Debbie, a mother of two, spends beyond her family's income on Ellowyne fashion dolls, and her husband presses her to cut back, worried the collection is filling some other gap. The film moves between these four households without narration passing judgment, letting each person explain, in their own words, what the dolls actually give them.