The Toe Tactic (2009)

Mona is nearly overwhelmed by grief and depression After her fathers death shes cut herself off leaving teaching she now temps as an office assistant ignoring her mothers calls talking to herself in mirrors and rejecting any offered intimacy Shes watched over by comic extraterrestrial beings whom we see as cartoon squiggles They ensure that random acts bring her connections with a neighbor boy his mother and his surreptitious piano teacher the lad wants to surprise his mom She also meets an elevator operator in the building where she temps for Ms Hadaway a widow with perfect diction Can Mona take a few steps on the road to expressing emotion