Disfluency

Disfluency is a 2021 American drama film that follows Jane, a college senior studying speech language pathology, as she returns to her family's lake house in Michigan after failing her final course under unclear circumstances. Withdrawn and frequently apologetic, Jane struggles to reconnect with life at home while concealing the cause of her academic collapse, which is linked to a traumatic incident from her past. As she teaches American Sign Language to a childhood friend and begins to confront her trauma, Jane finds the means to articulate her experience, marking a breakthrough in her ability to communicate what happened.