MONTREAL — Reigning XMAs winners Lilly Bell and Penny Barber star in the latest Bree Mills-directed thriller feature from Pure Taboo, "The Secrets We Share."
The title, produced by Siouxsie Q and Michael Vegas, also features Max Fills, Axel Haze, Tyler Cruise, and Charles Dera.
Bell plays "a 20-year-old exchange student whose summer immersion abroad spirals into a nightmare when she becomes entangled in a household poisoned by secrecy and an unsettling intimacy between a mother (Barber) and her withdrawn son (Fills)," the synopsis reveals. "What begins as a seemingly innocent stay unravels into coercion, isolation, and fractured identities."
Mills elaborated on the feature's premise.
"With 'The Secrets We Share,' I wanted to explore the most forbidden corners of family roleplay — the unspoken bonds and private tensions that can be more provocative than explicit acts," she said. "At its core, it is the story of a mother and son bound by an unsettling intimacy that unravels their already fractured family. Beneath that, the film also examines incel culture: how feelings of isolation, resentment, and entitlement can fester in the shadows, warping both identity and relationships."
"The Secrets We Share" is streaming on PureTaboo.
