[2][3] Themes that are present throughout the film are adolescent first love, sociocultural dilemmas, racism and deportation, and connecting emotionally through some of these barriers.

[4][5] In Bilbao, 14-year-old middle class student Rafa feels alienated and uncomfortable whenever his friends talk about girls, as he is secretly not attracted to them.

Rafa is annoyed after Javi, the group's confrontational leader, shares his number with Marta without his permission and she begins texting him.

Rafa begins to hang out with Ibra often, all while he grows more distant from an increasingly concerned Guille and turns down any approach from Marta.

While waiting for Ibra one afternoon, Rafa unexpectedly comes across his group, who confront him about hearsay of him hanging out with a Moroccan boy.

As Ibra discreetly arrives and overhears them, he is hurt to hear Rafa deny the rumors by reassuring them that he would never befriend a Moor.

After hanging out with them, Rafa goes looking for Ibra, only to find out that he has left the center due to fear of being deported to Morocco, like Said was, for facing the police.

Leaving the station, Ibra is allowed to stay in Youssef's run down apartment, which he shares with other illegal aliens and a severely disabled child under his care.

There, they begin playing and just as they are becoming intimate, Guille, Javi and the rest of the group storm in, making racist and homophobic comments in disbelief.

They opt to run towards a train leaving for France, but only Youssef and his child get in, as Rafa falls and Ibra stops to help.

Hidden Away tackles tough themes throughout the course of the film that include, but are not limited to the following: racism, homosexuality, homophobia, identity, social influences and adolescent love.

Shortly after, in that same month, TLA Releasing bought distribution rights for the United States of America which as a result of overseas success in countries such as France and Germany.

[8] Rueda found that the relationship between Moroccan and queer adolescence had parallel realities that he attempted to explore in the creation of this film.