An ordinary morning in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park becomes the dividing line in eight-year-old Josephine’s life. While running with her father, she witnesses a sexual assault — an event she cannot fully comprehend but whose consequences she feels everywhere. At home and at school, fear begins to reshape her behaviour, while her parents struggle to offer the reassurance she so desperately needs.

Beth de Araújo stays remarkably close to the child’s perspective, capturing the confusion of an experience for which there are no adequate words. Mason Reeves gives an arresting central performance, with Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan as parents whose love cannot supply an easy solution. Avoiding comforting shortcuts, Josephine considers what happens when the adult world suddenly reveals its capacity for violence, and how a family tries to find its footing afterward. Winner of both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance, this is an unsparing yet compassionate film about childhood, vulnerability and the difficult work of feeling safe again.