It Gets Curiouser and Curiouser The independent movie "Abigail Harm" opens with the curiously named title character (Amanda Plummer) reading aloud to a blind man from "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There." The two are seated apart in a poorly lighted room, and she's reading from Chapter 3, the part after Alice has read "Jabberwocky" and discovered a garden with talking flowers. Now, in some woods "where things have no names," Alice meets a fawn. Together, they walk a bit, her arms around the fawn. But when they leave the forest, the animal recognizes what they are - " "I'm a Fawn!" it cried out in a voice of delight, "and, dear me! you're a human child!" " - and darts away. It's a lovely, somewhat mysterious story, and its appearance in the movie sets you to wondering. Is this woman meant to be Alice, or is she the fawn? Time and the filmmaker, you may reasonably believe, will tell. Certainly, after a few scenes, it's easy to assume that Abigail is Alice, if rather less charming, and that a young, seemingly bewildered naked Asian man she finds in a derelict building may be the fawn. But that's getting ahead of this story, though, in truth, given the pieces - a different man bleeding in Abigail's home, a live deer wandering in her hall, an enigmatic voice-over explaining her life - it's difficult to get ahead of anything here. Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, who wrote the script with Samuel Gray Anderson, "Abigail Harm" tracks the lonely lulls and strange eruptions in one desperately uninteresting life. With short, scattershot scenes, and a somewhat gauzy realism that underlines Abigail's haziness, Mr. Chung sketches in her days and nights, showing her reading to blind clients and not dealing with the news that her father is dying. Mr. Chung also throws in a voice-over (by Will Patton) that, in turn, announces that Abigail "spends her days never being seen by anyone," which is both funny and tasteless enough to inspire hope that the fast-descending seriousness will soon ease up. At some point, the bleeding man (tiresomely talkative) and the deer (suggestively lyrical) pop by for visits. In time, like Alice, Abigail finds her "fawn" (Tetsuo Kuramochi), whom - after Mr. Chung introduces yet another deer, this one from a Korean folk tale - she takes home and treats like a pet, though one she has sex with. This sounds more interesting than what transpires, partly because Abigail and her Asian friend's own "forest" is filled with overburdened metaphors and quivering emotions, quirks and tics and even regulation Malick-like twirling. Some of this is pretty; none of it sticks. What does: another blind man (a wonderful Burt Young), who, early in the movie, asks Abigail to describe the images in a nudie publication and, as she falteringly describes what she sees, offers up a small, smutty smile that reveals a man, a life, a reality. Abigail Harm Directed and edited by Lee Isaac Chung; written by Samuel Gray Anderson and Mr. Chung; director of photography, Mr. Chung; music by Bryan Senti; production design by Valerie Chu; produced by Eugene Suen and Mr. Anderson; released by Almond Tree Films. At the Quad Cinema, 34 West 13th Street, Greenwich Village. Running time: 1 hour 20 minutes. WITH: Amanda Plummer (Abigail Harm), Tetsuo Kuramochi (the Companion), Will Patton (Narrator/the Visitor) and Burt Young (Mr. Warren).