[1] Bonnie (Stephanie Beatriz) is a successful architect living in Bushwick, Brooklyn with her boyfriend Matt (Michael Stahl-David) who works in advertising.

He visits her at work to tell her he can't join her or her coworkers for drinks due to a last minute client meeting.

Her coworkers, having been told she was only mugged, cheer her up by telling her she's a badass, while her boss pushes back her meetings to give her more time to prepare.

Bonnie gets defensive, believing that Matt had called and asked them to, which they don't deny, but she lets them walk her home anyway.

While staying in his apartment, she gets a call from the prosecutor that the DNA from her incident doesn't match that from the other victim nor anyone from police records.

The Light of The Moon premiered in March 2017 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, where it won the Audience Award in the Narrative Feature Competition[2] and was purchased for distribution by Imagination Worldwide.

The website's critical consensus states, "The Light of the Moon traces one woman's tortured journey beyond sexual assault with powerful empathy, marking writer-director Jessica M. Thompson as a talent to watch.

[6] The Light of The Moon was positively reviewed in both The Hollywood Reporter, which stated that "Beatriz and Stahl-David have a combustible energy"[7] and in Variety, which said the film was "harrowingly effective" and "brutally frank without ever lapsing into exploitation.