Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on, at least for everyone around her. Writer-director and lead actor Eva Victor shuffles the chronology of her wonderfully delicate and surprisingly humorous feature debut, presenting fragments of several years in the life of Agnes, her twenty-something English professor protagonist, as she explores from several angles the legacy of a traumatic event. Set in a small coastal New England college town, we first meet Agnes as her best friend Lydie (Naomi Ackie), newly married with a baby on the way, arrives for a long-overdue visit to the house they shared as graduate students. Victor broadens her scope in subsequent flashbacks, adding light and shade to her story, deftly avoiding sentimentality, displaying mastery of tone as she allows the full picture of what happened to Agnes time to develop.

Notes by David O’Mahony.