How’s this for a romantic “meet cute?”

He spies her outside the flat of a mate, a tracksuited young woman with bangs to die for and a willingness to sprint and parkour her getaway. He’s a combat soldier, apparently just gone AWOL, so by God he’s giving chase.

Eve (Carli Fish) wasn’t just outside that friend’s apartment. She was in it. He wasn’t just a mate, he was Ash’s (Oliver Lee) former sergeant (Clint Dyer). And Sgt. Sparxs, paralyzed in combat, abandoned by his wife, had just taken his life.

Eve, Ash comes to find out as he falls completely in love with ths reckless and sexy free spirit, was there to witness the act. She was Sparx’s “Ferryman,” someone to to ensure that things go off as planned and that the authorities (one assumes) realize it was a planned suicide.

“Ferryman” is writer-director Darren Bender’s sympathetic dive into assisted suicide, its pros and cons presented to lovesick Ash as he pokes his nose into Eve’s “club,” its rules and her reason for being in it.

If you haven’t guessed from her seeming good health and manic pixie dream girl lust for life, Eve is as doomed as anybody else in this underground club of the hopeless and despairing, those looking for a little instruction, sympathy and hands-off assistance in ending their lives.

Ash is in love with somebody not long for this world. That has him searching her phone, rummaging through her computer and stumbling into her parents (Raquel Cassidy of “Downton Abbey,” and Jay Simpson of “Small Axe”) and meeting other “ferrymen,” not something they’re expecting.

“I can’t break the chain,” they explain to him, in almost horror movie terms. But as they’re someone planning their own demise, who better to witness others see it through?

Fish (“Mother & Wild”) and Lee (“The Knife that Killed Me”) bring a youthful heedlessness to their characters — hers in a form of accepted denial, determined to go through with things no matter the romance that’s just dropped on her doorstep, his in becoming an active dissuader/disruptor of the club, or an ally with Eve against her parents’ weeping resistence.

It’s all kind of sadly formulaic and dispassionately passionate, but also adult and occasionally surprising in where it takes our assisted suicide sympathies. It’s not a simple decision, and often not one arrived at in haste. Once one has made it, there’s something to be said for having someone who knows exactly what you’re going through there at the end.

Rating: unrated, suicide subject matter, violence, sex

Cast: Carli Fish, Oliver Lee, Clint Dyer, Jay Simpson and Raquel Cassidy

Credits: Scripted and directed by Darren Bender. A Random Media release.

Running time: 1:30