Secrets We Keep

When a young au pair disappears from a tidy, wealthy suburb, Cecilie, a neighbor whose life looks orderly on the surface, begins asking questions that unsettle everyone nearby. Following scant clues and hesitant confessions, she reveals small compromises, hushes, and rivalries that have been normalized inside her community. Suspicion shifts from outsiders to familiar faces, and each new fact makes Cecilie question how much of her own routine depended on ignoring inconvenience. The investigation touches household hierarchies and friendship loyalties, and complicates how local authorities and families respond when someone without status goes missing, without revealing the case's resolution. Her inquiries expose legal and social blind spots that protect the comfortable and compel neighbors to re-evaluate longstanding assumptions.

Released in 2025, Secrets We Keep is directed by Per Fly and created by Ingeborg Topsøe and Rikke Kolding. The Nordic-led cast includes Marie Bach Hansen, Excel Busano, Danica Ćurčić, Sara Fanta Traore, and Simon Sears, and attracted international attention.

As of early 2025 the series has not received major awards or high-profile nominations. It is still new to international audiences, so any festival or awards recognition could appear later as the show reaches more territories and streams. Strong acting may draw future nominations.

Early conversations around the show focus on class, immigration, and domestic labor, particularly how wealth shields uncomfortable truths. Social media and critics in Nordic TV communities have highlighted specific scenes and character interactions that prompt debate about responsibility, silence, and who gets believed when someone vulnerable disappears, and local press.

Critical reaction is mixed to favorable, reflected in an average vote of 6.552 out of 10 from 97 viewers. Reviewers often single out performances by Bach Hansen and Busano, while noting the show prefers slow-building tension, moral ambiguity, and themes of secrecy, privilege, and the cost of silence.