The Missing

In 2006 Emily and Tony Hughes and their little boy Oliver are on holiday at Chalons Du Bois in France. Tony and his son visit a bar to watch television but when Tony turns round Oliver has gone. Tony contacts the local police, led by English-speaking Laurence Relaud and she brings in Parisian detective Julien Baptiste who issues an abduction alert. Emily's parents Penny and Robert turn up, Robert suggesting that Oliver has been kidnapped out of revenge.

Tony is annoyed when Mayor Deloix refuses to reopen the case, despite fresh evidence; Vincent Bourg, a known sex offender, is brought in for questioning; Suri bribes policeman Ziane for inside information; Bourg attends to a secret meeting with Ian Garrett.

The victim becomes the accused as Tony battles to prove his case. Meanwhile in present day France, something horrifying emerges.

Julien interviews Rini; A further clue is provided by the sighting of a van owned by Karl Sieg, a suspected trafficker, seen outside the house where Oliver was photographed; Tony visits Ian and learns that he's helping, as his daughter, Molly, vanished years earlier.

In 2014 Vincent Bourg visits Garrett's wife Mary in a psychiatric unit where she believes she is on an ocean cruise and Rini is able to locate the suspect Karl Sieg, living in Belgium under an assumed name. This is an advance on eight years earlier when her efforts to sound out her brother about the Romanian gang led to her being knifed. At that time Emily went to England to see Mary, who threw her out after she mentioned Molly and Tony , after assaulting Bourg, tracked down Ian Garrett on his boat. Here he found evidence of Garrett being a paedophile who had done away with Molly though he denies taking Oliver.