Dr Claire Cunnington is a researcher at the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, UK and a survivor of childhood sexual abuse (CSA). Her research, both in the present day and historically, focuses on adults who experienced CSA. The film ‘Flow’ is inspired by her Wellcome Trust funded doctoral research where she asked adults recovering from CSA what helped and hindered their recovery. Her recent article ‘‘They would rather not have known and me kept my mouth shut:’ The role of neutralisation in responding to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse’ explored silencing responses to disclosure.