22 (Soul)

An Undecided Soul

22 is one of the main characters of the animated film Soul from Disney Pixar Studios. Joe Gardner is a music teacher a little disillusioned until the day when one of his former students offers him to realize his dream, to play in a jazz band with one of his idols. Unfortunately for him, on his way out of his tryout with the band, he falls into a hole and dies. He finds himself in the afterlife and, desperate to get back into his body, stumbles into the place where new souls are trained to help them find their uniqueness before being sent to Earth. Joe is mistaken for a trainer and is given 22. 22 is a soul who has been waiting for millennia, all her previous trainers having given up. She has never been able to find what gave her soul a spark and most importantly, she is fine where she is and does not want to be on Earth. She and Joe make a deal. He helps her find her spark to get her pass but she gives it to him so that he can return to Earth. But things don’t go as planned and while 22 tries to help Joe to go back to Earth, she finds herself in his body and that’s how she’s going to realize how interesting it can be to be alive.