“Personal Effects” is a film about Alison, a sixteen-year-old, who moves into an all-male rooming house. When she realizes that her recurring dream of someone appearing in her room at night is not, in fact, a dream, and that her underwear has been gradually disappearing, she undertakes to find out what’s going on. The unexpected results of her investigation reverberate and come full circle years later, challenging a simple explanation of the events in the house along gender lines and showing, in retrospect, the consequences of Alison’s impulse to forgive.
