Break explores what happens when the identity we've constructed begins to unravel under pressure

Our journey began in Utica, NY, the hometown of the filmmaker, where we embarked on a mission to tell a compelling story of one woman's struggle with identity, loss, and self-discovery.

Break is a moving film about a first-generation Taiwanese-American woman who returns to her hometown for the funeral of a beloved childhood friend. What begins as a quiet homecoming spirals into a haze of buried secrets and tempting escape. As grief cracks open the facade she’s spent years perfecting, she’s forced to face the damage she’s done, the identity she’s constructed - and the woman she’s afraid of becoming.