Domee Shi was thinking of her own mother when she cooked up Bao, Pixar‘s latest short. In the film, which airs before The Incredibles 2, a Chinese mother is struggling to transition to life as an empty nester when she accidentally creates a giggling, cooing anthropomorphized dumpling. At first, the mother is delighted to be caring for another child, until the baby bao begins to rebel. At just 28, Shi is the first woman to direct a Pixar short.