The Hiding

Two very different fathers are pushed to extremes in order to protect their families when one child kidnaps the other. It's 1961, and a small rural community is left reeling from the abduction of two young children. Alex Summers is a travelling salesman who has always put work ahead of family. This leaves him divorced and estranged from his young daughter, Nancy. After Alex is asked to take care of Nancy just for one day, he reluctantly agrees. But he is forced to take Nancy with him to work. During their time spent on the road, Alex begins to regret the years he spent absent and promises to be a better father. When Alex and Nancy arrive at a seemingly empty farmhouse, Alex instead discovers a boy chained to a bed. Alex rescues the captive boy, Freddie, and is warned that two more children remain trapped in the house. Alex searches the entire house and makes a grim discovery. Not only are there no other children inside, but Freddie was already home. He never was the victim. He is in fact a blossoming killer, responsible for the recent disappearances. His deeply religious parents kept him captive and attempted to "pray the evil away" in the vein hope that it would stop him hurting more children. But now Freddie is loose. And he's taken Nancy with him into the woods. The evangelical farmer, Ed and his wife, Gwen return and Alex finds himself captive and at their mercy. While Freddie leads Nancy to his "favourite hideout" he battles his own compulsion to kill those who reject his friendship. He wants to be good, but he is becoming dangerous. Alex must now rescue his own daughter after freeing the very boy that holds her life in his hands, but first he must escape from Ed and Gwen, and he must do so before Freddie succumbs to his growing murderous urges.