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“This is the most magical sound you will ever hear,” 17-year-old Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) is told in “Never Rarely Sometimes Always.” Autumn is having a sonogram, and hearing the sound of the fetus’ heartbeat within her is anything but magic. By her own admission, she’s “just not ready to be a mom,” and what’s growing inside her feels more akin to a curse. In one of the film’s most powerful moments, Autumn turns her head away from the sound of the heartbeat.

Eliza Hittman’s latest depicts Autumn’s attempts to deal with her unwanted pregnancy. Along with her cousin Skylar (Talia Ryder), she travels from rural Pennsylvania to New York City in the hopes of accessing an abortion. Besides being emotionally fraught, their journey is made more complicated by a cash shortage, having nowhere to sleep, and crossing paths with predatory men.

The drama, which already took home the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at the Berlinale and a U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Neorealism at Sundance, is also a terrifying look into what goes on in crisis pregnancy centers. It’s there that Autumn is forced to listen to what’s decidedly not the most magical sound she’ll ever hear. In addition to putting immense pressure on the teen to keep her pregnancy, the fake clinic’s staff also gives her false, misleading information about how far along she is in an effort to thwart her from terminating.

“Never Rarely Sometimes Always” isn’t just an important — and unfortunately, timely — exploration of the barriers facing women who want to exercise control over their reproductive health, it’s also a moving portrait of Autumn and Skylar’s relationship, and the former’s efforts to reclaim ownership of her body.

“Never Rarely Sometimes Always” is now available on VOD.