Synopsis | As dawn approaches, Young-ok, an elderly substitute driver, spends the night driving other people’s cars home while searching for a sense of connection in the quiet hours. Moving through empty streets and brief encounters, she is met less with warmth than with indifference and quiet cruelty. Still, beneath the yellow glow of the early morning, Young-ok continues on, holding onto the hope of being truly seen and heard.

Programmer's note | If night and morning are two different worlds, dawn becomes the fragile link between them. The film gently asks that our human connection can also arrive like dawn. Broken Dawn touches the theme of tangibility through the lived weight of an aging body, the emotional texture of silence, and the unseen social ground on which human encounters take place. Through Young-ok’s endurance of indifference, humiliation, and physical labour with her hands steady on the wheel, the film draws out the real human story. Soil is more than the physical ground, it is the ground from which disconnection rises, even as one still reaches out to another body, to another soul.