After four-year-old Amanda McCready disappears from her home, the police make little headway in solving the case. Her aunt, Beatrice McCready, hires Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, private detectives with little experience in child abduction cases, to investigate the situation. As they delve deeper into the case and the heartbreaking world of trafficking and illegal adoption, they must navigate their personal emotional ties to the case, which threatens to cloud their judgment and jeopardize their ability to solve the case.