“I think I know what happened, but we’ve never really talked about it.” In Still Waters, filmmaker Aurora Brachman asks her mother a question she’s always suspected but never known the answer to. When her mother confirms she was sexually abused as a child, they are forced to face its reverberating effects throughout their lives. This intimate, confronting, and cathartic conversation charts a mother and daughter's relationship as they navigate the intergenerational forces of secrecy and silence that have shaped them both. Intertwined with imagery of the elemental forces of water, earth, and fire, they wade through their past and grapple with their present.