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This article deals with the transgenerational transmission of trauma and suffering. It aims to elucidate the incredible mechanisms of transmission of trauma from one generation to the other, and to outline clinical trajectories to approach the transgenerational suffering stored in the psyche. I will make use of different theories and clinical approaches which have informed my understanding: Tilmans’s work on the pattern of intergenerational transmission of trauma (1995); Stettbacher’s understanding of the concept of transference (1991); the process of selection-amplification and crystallization/pathologization described by Ausloos (1995); “the inner crypt” of Abraham and Torok (1978), recently revised by Tisseron (2004); and Selvini’s “ignorance of reality” (1995). Through several clinical situations, I will try to argue that the secrets, the concealment of reality, and the suffering experienced are more pathogenic than the trauma in itself and the suffering associated to it, especially for the following generation.