The Chronology of Water

As a teenager, Lidia goes through hell. Her mother doesn’t care about her, and her father mistreats her for years. Freedom means only one thing to Lidia: swimming. In the water, she is invincible. But she cannot escape her past for long; she falls into drugs and alcohol, seeks redemption through rough sex with men and women, loses her swimming scholarship, and surrounds herself with the wrong people.

Eventually, she discovers the power of words—and a writing class helps Lidia realize where hope for healing lies in her life. Kirsten Stewart takes the director’s chair and adapts Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoirs into a long-cherished dream project. She not only secures the collaboration of talented actors like Imogen Poots and Jim Belushi, but also infuses her debut behind the camera with a distinctive personality in a whirlwind of colors, sounds, and raw emotions.