Easily among the season’s most unique films, “The Secret Art of Human Flight”  is about a man who, as the title suggests, is secretly trying to fly.

As “Human Flight” begins, Ben Grady (Grant Rosenmeyer) just cannot move on after his wife – and soulmate – unexpectedly died. After weeks of inertia — and visits by the police who are suspicious of a sudden death and an insurance policy that makes him rich – Ben is hooked by an online offer to learn how to fly.

His sister is horrified that he is sleeping on the roof, throwing out furniture, all in preparation for his leap off a cliff that will see him soar through the air or crash to his death.

Maggie Grace, the “Taken” trilogy star, is Wendy, a woman who like Ben suffered a horrible loss but has emerged with new strength to go forward. She offers Ben support.

“I would say it’s a soulful, lovely fable, dealing with the many iterations of grief,” Grace, 40, said in a phone interview. “It also has a light-hearted, life affirming side. So it’s really not as much of a downer as that sounds. There’s a playful vibe to it too.

“But the setup is this man in mourning who cannot really accept going on with his life. Until he gets this crazy idea to fly like a bird.

“There are certainly fantastical elements,” she acknowledged, “but when you’re walking that path, when you’ve experienced deep loss and the longing that sometimes comes after, it’s really an example of you’ve seen an absurdity to life, right?

“I mean, it’s absurd that you can love someone so deeply and then suddenly – they’re not there!

“In Ben’s mind, the answer to that absurdity is something quite fantastical. Although this is in some ways larger than life, for any of us that have gone through something like that, and everyone coming out of 2020 who can relate to that, sometimes you really feel stuck.

“What can get you unstuck is perhaps unpredictable. Perhaps not part of the fabric of everyday life.”

It’s not lost on Grace that she’s playing a Wendy, a reference, of course, to Peter Pan. Wendy in Neverland looks after the Lost Boys.

“I’m not sure if that was the intention but I love that touch in her name. She’s a little further down the path to recovery, having lost someone.

“She’s there in this very humble way, coming alongside Ben, not so much as a mentor, just as another human – a fellow traveler.

“Grief,” she reckons, “doesn’t necessarily go away. You just move forward with it.”

“The Secret Art of Human Flight” is available on VOD Friday