“You wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.”

That quote opens director Janicza Bravo’s magnetizing, rollercoaster second feature film, Zola, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday. It’s also how the viral 148-tweet thread that inspired the movie begins—with a question that beckons you to unravel a stranger than fiction tale about a South Floridian weekend gone wrong, using a particularly niche internet vocabulary to do so.