Anna, a 38-year-old Korean adoptee with a cognitive disability, cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting one another’s needs. When a Florida heat wave shatters their family and Anna’s routine, her future is uncertain until she creates a world where she can thrive.

An intimate and thought-provoking drama, Take Me Home explores a family unit in a newly precarious position. Grounded in a magnetic performance by newcomer Anna Sargent, sister of writer-director Liz Sargent, Anna must navigate shifting family dynamics amid a system that deprioritizes her needs. Anna’s journey toward independence, community and contentment is both gripping and gentle, allowing audiences to experience her challenges alongside the bold promise of optimism. With a nuanced ensemble, including Victor Slezak as Anna’s devoted father, Bob, whose dementia is slowly emerging, and Ali Ahn as the loving but overloaded sibling Emily, the film still centers Anna with confidence.

Take Me Home addresses the structural indignities of our health care system and the inequities facing disabled people in our country — all with deep care, humor and imagination. The film has received prestigious awards, including Tribeca’s own AT&T Untold Stories $1 Million Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.—Bryce Norbitz