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Something very bad happened to Agnes. It\u2019s hinted at in the first segment of\u00a0Sorry, Baby<\/i>, when her best friend Lydie (Naomi Ackie) arrives for a\u00a0visit, and asks Agnes (Eva Victor) if she feels comfortable having the office of their old English professor Preston Decker (Louis Cancelmi). It\u2019s fairly easy to infer what Lydie means by this, particularly once they go for dinner at the home of their former classmate Natasha (Kelly McCormack) and she snarkily remarks that Agnes was always \u200b\u201c<\/span>Decker\u2019s favourite\u201d. Lydie politely changes the subject and gives Agnes\u2019s leg a\u00a0reassuring squeeze.<\/p>\n There has been a\u00a0deluge of films about sexual assault in the wake of MeToo, but for all the artistic capital (rightfully) afforded to survivors, precious little has materially changed within culture. Sometimes it feels as if there\u2019s more resentment than ever towards victims for daring speaking up \u2013 it\u2019s this reality that Eva Victor\u2019s directorial debut (which she wrote and stars in) captures so well, in which a\u00a0woman is sexually assaulted by a\u00a0man in a\u00a0position of trust, and the according fall-out is the lack\u00a0<\/i>of fall-out. Nothing in the world at large changes; everything does in hers, revealed in non-chronological order, with a\u00a0chapter for each year following the assault. When she goes to see a (male) doctor following her assault, he chastises her for not going to the ER<\/span> immediately afterwards. He seems completely indifferent to the traumatic incident Agnes has experienced; all Agnes and Lydie can do in response is\u00a0laugh.<\/p>\n What else can Agnes do? The perpetrator has already handed in his notice at college, and the school claim they\u2019re unable to open a\u00a0case against him as a\u00a0result. Agnes doesn\u2019t want to press charges against him because he has a\u00a0child \u2013 and if she\u2019s treated like an inconvenience by medical staff and her school, who\u2019s to say the police would be any different? So Agnes internalises her pain. Over the course of the next four years, she lives her life in the same apartment she shared with Lydie during grad school, and teaches at the same college she used to attend. There\u2019s an unspoken sense that Agnes can\u2019t quite move on from the place; she sleepily haunts it, unable to find closure because no one \u2013 except Lydie \u2013 understands or acknowledges what happened to\u00a0her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nGet more Little White\u00a0Lies<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n