half-life (n.) The time required for one unstable element to decay and transform into another. Writer-director Jennifer Phang s bold film combines live action with amazing animated flights of fancy to tell a powerful story. In a changing world, a precocious boy and his jaded sister react to their father"s desertion and the powerful presence of their mother"s charmingly manipulative boyfriend. Through imaginative powers, they escape their confining home-life, save their self-destructive mother, and finally, reinvent their world in a mind-bending conclusion.