Happiness and Love brings to life Layla Faraj’s award-winning New York Times Modern Love essay, showing how digital connection sustains family bonds across distance and conflict. The film captures how her family’s WhatsApp group chat, “Happiness and Love,” became a daily space to share both big moments and small details, creating continuity and emotional closeness despite separation. Collaborating directly with Layla, the film incorporates her authentic voice and real family messages, resulting in a visually intimate, emotionally resonant story that demonstrates how WhatsApp enables love and closeness even in impossible circumstances.