An aspiring stand-up comedian and au pair struggling with PTSD, as she decides whether or not to join the search for a missing teenage girl she used to nanny.

Raunchily hilarious in Shiva Baby and Bottoms, comedy darling Rachel Sennott shows off her dramatic chops in writer-director Ally Pankiw’s compelling feature debut. Exploring humor as both a salve and a camouflage this inventively plotted character study grapples with the aftershocks of loss.