A hint of the inscrutable can do service to any film in any genre, and it pays off some surprising ways in “We Strangers,” an oddball domestic dramedy about a “domestic” and the dizzy white folks who hire her.

Veteran TV producer (“Dropouts,” “Hardly Working”) and director (“A Man on the Inside”) Anu Valia’s feature film debut is about a Gary, Indiana housecleaner whose “business” takes off when the wealthy white women she works for learn that she “sees things,” that she’s a psychic.

But the more “jobs” she books. the more entangled in the messy lives of her clients she becomes. And her personal life — juggling single motherhood like her single-mom sister and transporting her single mom mother — kind of unravels in the process.

Kirby Howell-Baptiste of TV’s “Barry,””Sugar,” “The Good Place” and “Killing Eve” is Rayelle, “Ray” Martin, a housekeeper who stumbles into several well-paying jobs when her maid agency books her into cleaning a doctor’s office as he moves into new digs.

We meet her after she’s already started cleaning the doctor’s (Hari Dhillon) sububan home, having accepted the gig in a brief flashback. The weirdness begins almost immediately when a confused, almost distraught neighbor (Maria Dizzia) wonders what she’s doing there.

Neighbor Jean’s begging “Don’t SAY anything” to the doctor suggests messiness of the kind that Clorox can’t clean.

Cleaning for the doctor forces Ray into the confidences of the wife (Sarah Goldberg), who can’t believe the pretty 30something Black woman can’t help an upper middle class soccer mom pick out something to wear, and won’t accept the expensive, “cute” but bland and conservative fashions Tracy wants to give to her as Ray has given the thumbs down on that choice of what to wear to Tracy’s next event.

Their teen daughter Sunny (Mischa Reddy) is her own set of “issues,” childishly leaning on Ray for favors that Ray does — until she figures out she needs to be charging the kid for this nonsense.

The way Ray is hired-out to the weird neighbor is sketchy, “a gift,” the good doctor insists. Jean (Dizzia) is an unhappy housewife not getting what she wants out of marriage to dull U.S. Steel manager Ed (Paul Adelstein), whose racial politics are “those people” simplistic, and whose idea of a hobby is photographing U.S. flags flying over all 50 states — each flag indistinguishable from the next.

Yes, their doorbell chimes to the tune of “Dixie.” And yes, Jean’s fixation on a TV “psychic” opens her up to the idea of Ray saying “I see things,” as in dead people, fates, things to come. We get the impression that it’s just a hustle.

As word of this “gift” spreads, Ray’s reliability in her “real” life starts to bend and break as she starts oversleeping and failing in her family obligations.

And her efforts to monetize her work, her “gift” and her “favors” leave her vulnerable to what you’d call “bad karma.” Not that she isn’t owed the money or her share of good fortune.

Howell-Baptiste makes Ray hard to read, even as she’s a sort of Puck in this “Midsummer Night’s Dream” amongst white surbanites, facing proof after proof of “what fools these mortals be.”

The recurring and ever-changing image of a Caribbean volcano and various interpretations, misinterpretations and off-the-cuff BS attached to the jailed “lone survivor” of an eruption of Mount Peléeis the metaphor Valia tries to wrestle into this tale to give it “meaning.”

Characters confuse the “The Prisoner Dilemma” as they suggest the imprisoned man’s fated survival was blind luck, but also a double-edged sword. So it is with Ray’s “gift.” As rich and clueless as her clients are, is this self-interested world one that she should aspire to and mimic?

Howell-Baptiste makes a mesmerizing yet earthy and “real” tour guide through the meandering narrative of “We Strangers.” She’s the best reason to watch this inscrutable film that’s easy to take-in but tricky to decode, based on what’s included and what’s left underdeveloped or simply undeciphered.

Rating: 16+, alcohol abuse profanity

Cast: Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Hari Dhillon, Kara Young, Paul Adelstein, Sarah Goldberg, Maria Dizzia and Tina Lifford.

Credits: Scripted and directed by Anu Valia. A Quiver release on Amazon Prime.

Running time: 1:28