Blood is the body fluid in humans (and other animals) that transports nutrients and oxygen to the cells and metabolic waste products away from the cells. Throughout history, blood has had great concrete and symbolic meaning, – blood is a symbol of the human life force and soul, at the same time it is also a liquid associated with death, violence, and division. Blood pulses through myths, religion, literature, art and science, and is constantly given new meanings and interpretations. Blood is both a life-giving serum, a commodity, a symbol, and a chemical substance, that together shape and contain the human body. By introducing certain conceptual leakages into these categories, It Cannot be Contained seeks to visualize a leaking ephemeral subject, that posits the body as everything but a self-contained autonomous entity. The film interweaves both mythical, historical, political, and scientific stories on blood into a poetic-documentary meditation on this substance and its magical and concrete connotations.