Set within the quiet, dimly lit preservation lab, DAILY WORKER documents the digitization project of film negatives from the early 20th-century union newspaper "Daily Worker," which covered an important era of New York City's labor movements. Through a montage of repetitive work routines, archival film negatives, and personal photographs, the filmmaker discovers a shared language between fragments of history and her own life. Echoes of her mother’s early migrant labor in China resonate with the faces of workers captured in the analog film. This documentary pieces together personal and historical memories, drawing parallels across international borders, cultures, and generations, reflecting on questions of labor, purpose, and belonging.