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Incest, as a traumatic act, is woven into family silence, and its effects are transmitted from generation to generation, marking bodies, identities, and memories. Through a personal narrative blended with sociological, psychological, and transgenerational analysis, this text explores the effects of the unspoken on the psychic construction of descendants. The narrator confronts the legacy of incestuous silence, invisible loyalties, and the traces left by violent acts within the family, while highlighting the importance of speaking out as a tool for resistance and emancipation. This text also bears witness to the difficulty of establishing a sexual identity in an environment marked by shame, taboos, and homophobia, and the urgency of breaking the cycle of silence to open up space for a healthier transmission, particularly through the narrator becoming a father himself.