Family Matters

A perfectly set dining table for four. Three occupied chairs. The empty one speaks loudest of all. In this 2025 family drama, the Chen family navigates a year of unspoken grief after a sudden loss. A father buries himself in work, a mother clings to rigid routine, and their teenage daughter drifts further into silence. The conflict isn't in shouting matches, but in the careful avoidance of a certain name at dinner, in the untouched bedroom down the hall. It's a quiet, aching portrait of how a family can live in the same house yet inhabit entirely different worlds of sorrow, and the fragile, mundane acts that might—or might not—begin to bridge the distance.