Sometimes the most compelling stories are those told from perspectives we rarely consider. That’s exactly what screenwriter and director Dan Kay set out to do with What We Hide , an emotionally driven film that examines the ripple effects of addiction through the eyes of its youngest witnesses and those left to pick up the pieces following loss.
What We Hide follows two young sisters, Spider (Mckenna Grace of Ghostbusters fame) and Jessie (Jojo Regina), whose lives are upended after discovering their mother has died from an overdose. Hardened by years of instability and terrified of being separated, Spider makes the unthinkable choice to hide their mother’s death. Left to raise her sister and conceal her mother’s body, Spider leans on her friend Alexis (Malia Baker), whose father,