Hiding (2012)

Plotzle Expert · E44 · April 14, 2026 · Drama / Thriller

Six plot descriptions for Hiding (2012). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A woman returns to her childhood home after her mother's suicide and finds notebooks suggesting someone in their small town knew about the abuse but never intervened.
2. An undocumented translator working for immigration services conceals his status from his employer while processing asylum cases that mirror his own experiences of fleeing violence years earlier.
3. A man watches his estranged daughter through social media after she cuts contact and he realizes the version of their relationship he tells others bears no resemblance to reality.
4. A recovering alcoholic accepts a teaching position in rural Vermont and begins an affair with a married colleague who shares his history of relapse and self-destruction.
5. A teenager witnesses her parents' murders and enters witness protection in a rural town, where she must avoid a hitman while adjusting to life without technology or contact with her past.
6. Two brothers inherit their father's failing pharmacy in Detroit and discover he kept detailed records of customers buying pseudoephedrine while enabling their addictions for profit over decades.