Faced with a cancer diagnosis, Anna re-examines her family's history that was built on secrecy. She takes the heartbreak and anger of her own narrative and uses the secrets her grandfather told her when she was a child to redefine who she is. Stories You Do Not Know, not only explores how Anna's life evolves by keeping her heritage secret, but also examines the heart wrenching personal accounts of her ancestors, who hid their Native American heritage from their neighbors and the U.S. Government, in acts of life or death.