Non-disclosure agreements were designed to protect trade secrets. Today they reach into workplaces, newsrooms and private lives, binding ordinary people to silence about what happened to them, often for years.

My NDA follows three people who decide, at extreme personal risk, to break theirs: Ifeoma Ozoma, a former Pinterest executive who called out the company for racial disparities in salary levels; former National Enquirer editor Lachlan Cartwright and Ashley Kostial, whose story gives the film its most gripping stakes.

Directors Juliane Dressner and Miriam Shor, who has signed an NDA herself, follow each decision in close observational detail as the legal, financial and emotional pressure mounts. What emerges is a portrait of corporate secrecy working as a psychological weapon, and of the toll it takes on the people bound by it. Part legal thriller, part intimate portrait, My NDA shows how a simple contract can keep criminal wrongdoing off the record, and what it takes for someone to speak anyway.