Anja Hilling’s fragile little character study is an exploration of the way a person’s absence can be felt even more than her presence. Two couples plan an LSD trip together but the mousier of the girls dies from a fall. The acid trip turns out to be a red herring and the rest of the play follows the survivors as the gap in their foursome forces each of them to redefine themselves and their relation to the others.

Expressing their loss in different ways, jealous of each other’s pain, surprised to be happier when her memory is present than when it begins to fade, the three become aware of how tenuous their ties to each other are. The dead girl’s boyfriend and the other girl mistake their shared grief for attraction to each other, while the remaining boy, now deprived of both girls and his friend, is forced to be the first to find ways of moving forward.

Elliptical to the point of hardly being there, the play is more an evocation of emotion and mood than a linear story, and director Kate Nelson and the cast carry it with the light and tender touch it requires.