A woman sits in a chair before the camera. At the urging of the filmmaker, she describes a past event. Years ago, she was invited to attend the Governors Ball, and though she didn’t have much money, she splurged on an expensive, beautiful dress, only to have her expectations go awry. She finishes her story, but then the filmmaker asks her to recount it. The distinctions between the first and second telling are restrained yet perceptible, raising ideas about femininity and self-worth.  ST

This film screened as part of the 40th Anniversary of New Day Films, a program of New Day Films’s very first documentaries directed by the four founding members: Liane Brandon, Jim Klein, Julia Reichert, and Amalie Rothschild.