When four-year-old Amanda McCready the child of a neglectful substance-abusing single mother disappears her distraught aunt and uncle ask private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro to help the police find the little girl. As they team up with the detectives assigned to the case and follow a trail that appears to lead to a local drug dealer it slowly becomes clear that the truth behind Amanda`s disappearance may be more disturbing than it seems.