To Elena, existence is an effortnot only does she struggle against her body affected by Parkinsons, but her daughter has just shown up dead and only she finds the suicide hypothesis implausible. Elena is not a good victim, and doesnt show signs of having been a selfless mother. She is vulnerable, but also overcome by rage and sorrow, and that stubbornness seems to render her invincible, against all odds. But investigating the reasons for her daughters death soon becomes a trip through memory, and, as weve known since the time of Greek tragedies, every investigation is, deep down, an investigation about oneself. Elena Knows submerges us in the physical and mental experience of its protagonist and, at the same time, invites us to ask ourselves uncomfortable questions about aging, the complexity of mother-daughter bonds and the weight of those mandates women drag the same way Elena drags her feet.