What We Hide

The film tracks the sisters over a tense few days as they improvise a cover up that spirals beyond their control. Each step moving the body, dodging neighbors, talking to authorities forces them to choose between the truth and survival. Beneath the thriller mechanics is a coming of age core: grief, parental neglect the terror of institutional separation and the fragile morality of kids force to act like adults.

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When an ordinary school day ends in catastrophe at home, the older sister (McKenna Grace) realizes the only thing standing between her and her little sister (Jojo Regina) is a bureaucracy that will label them “at risk” and scatter them to strangers. In a frantic, overnight plan, the girls hide their mother’s body and scrub the house for traces, rehearsing stories for teachers, neighbors and social workers.

What begins as one lie becomes many: dodged attendance calls, a forged note, a “weekend trip” alibi. A well meaning adult (Jesse Williams) notices tiny inconsistencies the kind that only appear when kids are sleeping too little and thinking too much. The mystery is not who did something but how long the truth can be kept buried and what it will cost these two to keep it there.

Movie Overview

Logline: After their mother dies of an overdose, two sisters conceal the body to avoid being split by the foster system. As questions mount, their pact turns into a pressure cooker of guilt, loyalty and fear.
Director: Daniel Kay
Type: Feature film — Drama / Thriller / Mystery
Cast: McKenna Grace, Jojo Regina, Jesse Williams
Runtime: 102 minutes
Country: United States
Content note: Substance abuse, death, child endangerment, sustained anxiety.