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DAYBREAK,

 the story of man whose wish to change one event from his past leads to a nightmarish new life, is a refreshing variation on the "what-if" scenario. It is a decidedly dark tale whose bleak ending hearkens back to the style of "The Twilight Zone

Jeff Stokes lives with his wife Michele and stepsons in Los Angeles pursuing his dream of being an artist. Unhappy that Michele cannot have more children, Jeff makes a wish to change one thing in his life: that Michele had married him after high school and not Walter, her late husband. Jeff's obsession to father his own children, and thus achieve a kind of immortality, is used as a metaphor for the artist's need to create a masterpiece. A masterpiece, the pinnacle of an artist's creativity, is another form of immortality. And so Jeff Stokes makes a wish to achieve his masterpiece, his own children, by any means.

The next morning Jeff wakes to discover a very different world. Michele is still his wife, but she is not the same. And neither is Jeff. No longer an aspiring artist, he languishes as an insurance salesman in his Pennsylvania hometown and hides his paintings in the basement. Jeff finds he has created his "masterpieces" (two sons) as accidents in his youth. Metaphorically, what do you do once you have your masterpiece? Drive sustains the journey to create the masterpiece, but what sustains the artist after it has been achieved? And what if the masterpiece was an accident? Confidence and courage to create breathe life into the artist. Without that ability to create, what is left for the artist?

DAYBREAK follows Jeff's struggle to comprehend the true cost of his selfish wish, as he desperately searches for a way to set things right. That option may be more than Jeff has bargained for.