Whether a story has a happy ending, Orson Welles famously noted, depends on where you stop telling it. Isabel do Carmo, the Portuguese antifascist activist whose voice structures the narrative of Emily Wardill’s Night for Day, 2020, spent four years in jail, not during the years of the authoritarian Estado Novo regime but after the 1974 Carnation Revolution in which it was overthrown. Though the paradox of her being a dissident jailed by the parliamentary democracy she helped usher in is not addressed in Wardill’s video, I could not help but see it as the unifying thread that runs through the