An old man descends into his own flooded house to find a lost pipe, and you realize you're watching someone swim through his entire life. Every room is a memory, rendered in watercolor softness, and the film doesn't need dialogue to break you because the animation already knows what your chest feels like. Twelve minutes. That's all it takes to understand why some people make art instead of just stories.

An elderly man lives in a town slowly sinking beneath the water. To stay dry as the level keeps climbing, he adds new floors of bricks on top of his home. When his favorite pipe falls into the flooded rooms below, he decides to go after it. Renting diving equipment, he sinks down through the old levels of his house, and each room he passes brings back memories from years gone by. What begins as a search for a lost possession becomes something quieter. This short drama film considers how time can swallow the past entirely, and how a person must keep moving forward in spite of what came before.