1972: Steven Stayner, de 7 años, desaparece de Merced, California. Su familia lucha por mantener su caso a la vista del público, hasta que su heroico regreso siete años después provoca una sensación en los medios.
A heroic escape. A televised family reunion. But the Stayner ordeal is far from over as painful secrets surface. When a hit TV movie rewrites the Stayner story, reality gets stranger than fiction.
Two decades after Steven went missing near Yosemite, three tourists vanish from the same area. When the FBI finds the killer, the Stayner family is linked to the new, horrifying crimes and the family is thrust back into the headlines.