Can you escape a fear that is not your own? "I’m breathing all the time" is an autobiographical documentary about mental illness and an ambivalent mother-daughter relationship. Director Rosa Gocht has suffered from severe anxiety and panic attacks since early childhood. On family holiday at the Baltic Sea, she tries to understand her condition and to find its roots through conversations with her mother, her little brother and her grandmother. Gradually, a family past unfolds where closeness and interdependence are intertwined, and anxiety runs through multiple generations of women. 

The film seeks to create access to Rosa's inner perception through its visual language - her derealisation, which is a symptom of her disorder and causes her reality to slip again and again. The film is a radically intimate exploration of anxiety disorders, shared trauma and the things that won't let go.