Estranged from her father for over a decade Ashley learns of her father's suicide and desperately tries to piece together her father's death that is shrouded in mystery.It's not until she finds his obituary does Ashley discovers her father's other life and other family. Desperate for answers and closure, Lauren goes to New Jersey to meet her father's family and is forced to face the past she so desperately tried to forget.As Ashley gets closer to her father's wife, she learns of his continued struggles of abuse, drugs, and deteriorating mental state that led him to take his own life. In her efforts to process these events, Ashley finds a reflection of herself in her father's struggles with suicide as the trauma from her father takes hold of her once more.Through the metaphorical imagery of water, Ashley goes on an emotional journey as she finds a new family, inherits the strength passed onto her by her mother, and ultimately finds salvation and forgiveness with the dead.