The limits of identity, at least as it’s projected through digital platforms, are tested by six teenagers whose self-told stories unfold in juxtaposition with each other, so that a panoply of gender, class, and just plain young problems echo and contradict each other.

Israeli filmmaker Ayelet Albenda has a nose for the telling moment, but somewhat ironically, the film’s observations become more vital when she mixes the main group’s messages—whether about tortured body image, parental oppression, or simple tips about hair and makeup—with parallel YouTube clips underlining the universality of even the most isolated experience. Regardless of their problems, the kids themselves are understandably shallow, and the movie ignores race as an issue. The recent Eighth Grade covered much of this in more (fictionalized) depth. And where’s that Brian Wilson song when we need it?