People often mistake that looking happy and being happy is something completely different, and having a family is something that can be what a child needs most.
Jameston is going to graduate high school in a year, but his sister Kat is just starting out in third grade, people don't know what happens behind closed doors. Those doors hold secrets that only Kat and Jameston can tell, yet don't, afraid that their parents might torture them with words and something more torturous than that.