This is Water follows five college seniors in their final year of film school, Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer; playing out on screen in chapters as a sort of grand epic tragedy because when we are young our lives feel like grand, epic tragedies. Five friends, Nate, Sam, Colin, Joie, and Andy, a producer, three directors, and a cinematographer spend their final year of college growing as filmmakers but most importantly learning the importance of growing as individuals. The story depicts the explicit truth of the hardships of school, the quarter-life crisis, and the lingering effects of childhood trauma. Two people die, someone gets pregnant, and there's a lot of subsistence abuse, but they all graduate.