Day Break (Persian: دم صبح, romanized: Dam-e Sobh) is a 2005 independent film from Iranian director Hamid Rahmanian.
Although the crime he committed and its immediate antecedents are never directly shown, it appears that he killed someone, probably his employer, with a brick stone on a busy street in broad daylight.
While his fellow prison inmates celebrate the cancellation, the stressful uncertainty between life and death takes its toll, and Ziaee withdraws more and more from the world around him.
He does not want to see his family anymore, who has moved back to Zir Ab because they felt lonely in Tehran, he attempts suicide and provokes to be sent to solitary confinement.
The International Herald Tribune described the film as "a hard-hitting, thought provoking drama that gives a new dimension to a hot topic: the death sentence".