The film, shot in a house filled with water, depicts a story of a flooded suburb. Tension, repression, conflict have made the home atmosphere so dense they took liquid form. A sense of belonging is often generated in a house, accompanied by family and friends. This is the stage of Drowning Room. The house and the dining room table become metaphors for belonging in this movie, yet the room is submerged and accompanied by a ticking clock, noting a limit to the possibly suffocating situation in which the attendants of the dinner find themselves. It expresses a sense of representational struggle in a domestic scene where belonging is usually found. Submergence of the lead characters whilst they are still breathing is an indication of stages of denial and then conflict. The pulling drawers out of cupboards and closets that are empty might mean that there is no information stored in places where it should be, also denoting the absence of a kind of necessary information. But what would that absence of compartmentalization within furniture mean? The compartment holds specific information which means that lacking any kind of specificity be it in writing or object can means that absence is part of this domestic life and culminates in empty compartments. The destabilization of history or information that makes memories that create the self is similar to virtual experience destabilizing any sense of self.