Zoe Saldana feels like the Disney and Pixar film “Elio” is a story about the imperfect journey that parents and their children go through.

“I think it's okay to look at your kids and sort of just not know what to do, because that is a way that you can connect with your children, because half of the time they don't know what to do as well,” Saldana, who’s a mother, told Reuters.

The animated film “Elio” follows a lonely 11-year-old boy named Elio Solis, played by Yonas Kibreab, who unintentionally becomes the intergalactic ambassador of planet Earth after being sent to a planet called Communiverse.

He must work with alien lifeforms, eventually realizing that he is not alone.

“Elio,” directed by Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, and Adrian Molina and written by Julia Cho, arrives in movie theaters on Friday.

The cast includes Kibreab, Saldana as Olga Solis, Elio's aunt who takes care of him, and Brad Garrett as Lord Grigon, a bulky, worm-like alien warlord, father and ambassador.

Garrett, who is a father, noted that Grigon has his own parenting journey in the film that starts off a little rocky.

What the “Everybody Loves Raymond” actor loves about “Elio” is that the movie speaks to how everyone is unique, and children have their own path.

For co-director Domee Shi, feeling isolated at a point in her life helped her create the character Elio.

“I feel like I went on that journey. Definitely at some point in my life as a kid too, I felt like that weird, artsy kid who was the only kid in Toronto that watched anime at some point, but once I went to animation school and I found my people, that’s when I felt like I opened up,” she added.