The Darkness of Day is a lyrical documentary that explores suicide and the inherent aspects of depression, mortality and isolation. A series of anecdotes suggest the various ways suicide can be perceived, contemplated, and enacted. Woven throughout the film are the journal writings of a friend’s brother who killed himself in 1990. The work includes accounts of several suicides including the Italian author and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi.

The Darkness of Day is designed to invite conversation and understanding among viewers, eschewing an overly objectifying approach in favor of a more meditative, mediated, compassionate view.