A 16-minute gut punch about grief, mooncakes, and the multiverse of missed goodbyes.
After receiving a strange package on her late father's birthday, 18-year-old Lana goes on a journey to visit her father's grave, uncovering the true significance of the package and her father's death.
Direction
mimi lee packs a feature's worth of emotion into 16 minutes.
Cinematography
Dreamlike lunar imagery that earns its title.
Writing
Economy of dialogue; every silence speaks volumes.
Director
mimi lee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake becomes a literal vessel for reconnection across time and death—a specifically Chinese-American meditation on filial piety that Hollywood rarely attempts.
Lee based the package mystery on real COVID-era experiences of families receiving belongings of relatives who died in isolation, making the sci-fi element grounded in 2020's specific grief.
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