Nichols grew up in a small Texas town called Little Elm. She claims that her high school theater teacher's husband groomed her as a teenager — a relationship that lasted well into her college days. Although Nichols knows that her experience as a survivor of grooming and sexual abuse is not identical to that of Weinstein's accusers, the national news story hit her "as part of this larger problem of misogyny and patriarchy and abuse of power." When Weinstein's accusers came forward, the filmmaker began to think about how she wanted to tell her own story. Part personal story and part cultural exploration, Keep This Between Us examines grooming and sexual abuse in the American school system. Besides Nichols, the series' second subject is a young survivor named Heaven Rubin - who sued the Miami-Dade School Board for her reaction to her own supposedly inappropriate relationship with a teacher when she was 17.