Belle, Pearl, and Sara, three generations of Appalachian women, reflect aboutlife in a 1950s family and how it touches the future.

TO HIDE THE TRUTH is a true story of the disturbing relationship between a daughter and her father. It speaks the truth of an era when family abuse and alcoholism were subjects of taboo, revealing a culture that accepted violence as a way of life. Within the walls of the tiny house, the mother suffers not only physically, but emotionally, spiraling downward into a vacant space of self-worth.The daughter becomes desensitized to the depths of nightly terror. In the summer of 1958, nine-year old Susan becomes her mothers protector in a role reversal necessitated for survival. The cycle continues...