Yandy Liu

When Day Breaks is a silent, visually driven meditation on loss, memory, and the fragile thread between the living and the dead. Set against the chaos of armed conflict, a daughter killed as a civilian lingers between life and memory as she observes her mother grief from beyond. Her final presence becomes an unspoken act of comfort, reaching across the divide. What does it mean for the living to hold on? And what does it take to keep living?

Two soldiers in a small unit stranded in the field await a signal from their radio. When the signal finally comes as they stand apart; they must confront the possibility of the tenderness they’ve protected against erasure.

When Day Breaks is a silent, visually driven meditation on loss, memory, and the fragile thread between the living and the dead. Set against the chaos of armed conflict, a daughter killed as a civilian lingers between life and memory as she observes her mother grief from beyond. Her final presence becomes an unspoken act of comfort, reaching across the divide. What does it mean for the living to hold on? And what does it take to keep living?

Two soldiers in a small unit stranded in the field await a signal from their radio. When the signal finally comes as they stand apart; they must confront the possibility of the tenderness they’ve protected against erasure.