Writer-director Eva Victor’s breakout Sundance sensation, scooped up by the hip hitmakers at A24, announces the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American independent cinema. The film follows Agnes (Eva Victor), a young adjunct professor at their alma mater. Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.

Chronicled in a handful of chapters, we go backward and forward in time, experiencing their life as a grad student before it was shattered, as well as their year’s-long journey coming to terms with their trauma. All the while, they are navigating the uncertainty of life in academia and the circle of friends and cohorts who drift apart as time passes.

If that all sounds heavy, you’re right. But not so fast: Sorry, Baby is far more uplifting, offbeat, and effortlessly laugh out loud funny than you would ever expect. Its humor is both a natural extension of Victor’s winning artistic voice and a potent defense mechanism that deepens the themes of this seemingly auto-biographical journey. As Jacob Oller of The AV Club says, “That a story about post-traumatic dissociation and recovery is this funny and charming is a minor miracle.”

Sorry, Baby is also playing at 7 pm in the Film House on Friday, August 22.