Most able-bodied people don't know what to say to 23-year-old Vera (Lucia Zemene) in the months following a traffic collision that left her without a leg, but one empty platitude really stands out: A ...

Aided by Lucia Zemene's gutsy, funny lead performance, Mari Sanders' debut skips the usual faux-inspirational beats in its story of a young woman adapting to life in a wheelchair. That approach begins ...