An Invisible Sign

• Directed by: Marilyn Agrelo
• Screenplay by: Pamela Falk, Michael Ellis
• Based on: An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender
• Produced by: Pamela Falk, Michael Ellis, Jana Edelbaum, Lynette Howell
• Starring: Jessica Alba, Chris Messina, John Shea, J. K. Simmons
• Cinematography: Lisa Rinzler
• Edited by: Sabine Hoffmann
• Music by: Andrew Hollander
• Production companies: iDeal Partners Films, 120dB Films, Silverwood Films, Kimmel International
• Distributed by: IFC Films
• Release dates: May 6, 2011
• Running time: 96 minutes

Mona Gray systematically withdraws from life into a world of mathematics after a mysterious mental illness leaves her father incapacitated and a shell of his former self. Forced by her mother to move out on her own, Mona gets a job as a math teacher at an elementary school. There she discovers she has an unorthodox talent for teaching and finds herself thrust back into life again, with children to care for, and a reason to live. Mona takes special interest in one of her students, Lisa Venus, whose mother is dying of cancer. When fellow teacher Ben Smith shows romantic interest in her, Mona reverts to some of her old self-destructive impulses. Eventually, Mona discovers her value in the love she shows her students, and she and Ben find love in each other.