Wesley Julius, Simone Wilson, Jasper Casimir, and Adeline White are best friends who live in the fictional town of Hollis, Massachusetts. Trying to survive their junior year with the secrets that they each hold on their shoulders while dealing with the familial pressures of being second generation children of Haitians, the friends are all on their tipping points. Just as Christmas break nears, the four friends begin to receive messages from an anonymous source known as Publius who is threatening to leak their jaw-dropping secrets. As more and more messages begin to bring each of them to come to terms with their secret and their true selves, they all soon realize that they will do anything to keep their secrets buried once and for all.