So let's start with the questions any person in Nancy's situation would normally face - how do the bills get paid in this household? Where did the money for the funeral come from? How did Nancy get a driver's license and social security card without a birth certificate? Right, indie filmmakers who need to make films about the downtrodden never sweat those details, because they never lived that life as much as they want to capture and idealize it.
And why is this movie so bleak? We have a scene that hinted at the humor inherent in this kind of movie: her absurd story about visiting North Korea as a tourist, but, no, let's go for how sad and awful and dull and bleak Nancy's life is instead, because nobody in her situation could possibly be anything but miserable.
Even the ending is bleak, when it doesn't need to be; I chose to interpret her leaving as without severing ties, that Nancy has found some happiness but chooses not to spoil it by overstaying her welcome, that she and the couple will continue to be in contact, because otherwise, what the hell was the point?
If you're going to make an indie movie about sad, oppressed people, at least let them have a chance and at least make their lives believable, otherwise this just plays out like a limousine liberal's worst nightmare.
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