Oxygen

Eight-year-old Laura disappeared in August 1999. All efforts to find the girl proved futile—she vanished without a trace. They found her only fourteen years later. For all those years she had been kept in a container in the backyard of a private house, wearing a collar on a chain… Carlo Maria Balestri—professor at the local university, a distinguished, well-respected scholar of anthropology—has been arrested on charges of this and a number of other abductions and murders. In search of answers to questions that drive him mad, the professor’s son Luca tries to establish contact with Laura…