Empathy is a short film that follows six strangers whose lives intersect over the course of a single day, each unknowingly passing their pain to the next. It begins with Maya, whose peaceful morning is shattered when a rushing stranger spills coffee all over her without a word. Shaken and distracted, she steps into a crosswalk without looking, nearly causing an accident that rattles the driver for the rest of his day. That driver snaps at a coworker. The coworker brushes past someone at lunch. A shopper dismisses a young clerk. One by one, each small act of carelessness ripples forward, until the chain circles back to where it started -- with Maya, now the one inflicting the very hurt she experienced that morning. She pauses, almost recognizing what she has become, but it is already too late. The cycle begins again.