A tragedy unfolds in a luxurious mansion on the shores of Lake Michigan: one of Judge Dennett’s daughters, twenty-five-year-old Mia, is missing. A little reserved, but extremely lovely. Her friends and school colleagues—where Mia teaches art—have no idea where she is.
Detective Gabe Hoffman puts all his effort into finding the girl and soon concludes that she was kidnapped. However, someone interfered with the criminals’ plans, and so the terms of the ransom remain unknown. A perceptive detective notes the inappropriate calm of James Dennett—an authoritative judge is more concerned about the uproar around his name than about his daughter’s fate. This leads Hoffman to suspect his involvement in the kidnapping.
Whether that is true, only Mia herself knows—but even after Dennett’s daughter is found in an abandoned forest cabin, the investigation does not move forward. A severe amnesia has wiped from Mia’s memory the events of that terrible night when she did not return home…