Night of the Missing

18-year-old June Allen lives with her single mother, Grace, in Van Nuys, a Los Angeles suburb. Despite being close, June is annoyed at Grace's attempts to micromanage her life. When Grace heads out for a vacation to Cartagena, Colombia with her boyfriend, Kevin, June spends the time partying while trying to avoid Grace's lawyer friend, Heather. A week later, June awaits her mother and Kevin at Los Angeles International Airport, but they never arrive, and an inquiry at the hotel in Cartagena reveals their luggage never left. When the FBI attaché at the American consulate is unable to get to the footage in time, June decides to investigate herself. She hires Javier, a Colombian gig worker who complies with June's requests for a small fee. June cracks the password to Kevin's Gmail account, in which she discovers several aliases and a criminal record of scamming many women for their money. Believing Kevin kidnapped her mother, June has Javier look for clues as to their whereabouts in Colombia. She traces Kevin's past movements to a location in Nevada, where she talks to Jimmy, a pastor at a Christian rehabilitation center for ex-convicts. Jimmy tells her Kevin has been rehabilitated and is genuinely in love with Grace. Kevin's online dating profile seemingly confirms this, as past messages reveal Grace was already aware of Kevin's past. FBI agent Elijah informs June he received footage of a band of criminals kidnapping Kevin and Grace in Colombia. June quickly unmasks this as a fabricated event, discovering Kevin had hired a lookalike actress named Rachel to impersonate her mother, who had been kidnapped en route to LAX beforehand. It is revealed Grace went by a different name in the past, sparking online speculation about her character. Swearing by her mother's innocence, June's suspicions fall on Heather when she discovers an encrypted communication line between her and Kevin. June goes to confront Heather, intending to capture evidence of her wrongdoing. Instead she finds her office ransacked, her computer in the process of being factory reset, and Heather's lifeless body in a storage closet. Later, June views live footage of a police raid in Colombia focusing on Kevin, who is shot and killed despite surrendering peacefully. Seemingly at a dead end, June is about to give up, but finally figures out the password to her mother's email from old voicemails. Checking her phone's travel history, June discovers her mom never made it to Colombia. While checking through her blocked users, she finds a threatening e-mail directed at Grace, which leads her to discover security cameras Kevin had bought to install at an abandoned house, which turns out to be her childhood vacation home in Nevada. June speaks into the cameras, and discovers the video her mother had previously saved. Before she can view it, Jimmy calls her and reveals he is outside June's door. Pastor Jimmy reveals he is her father, James Walker, who June thought died of a brain tumor when she was a child. He claims Grace was emotionally unstable and took June away from him after having him arrested under false charges. As James continues going into detail, he inadvertently reveals that both he and Kevin were incarcerated in the same period. June realizes James and Kevin planned the entire ruse. James was a drug addict, domestic abuser, and an obsessive stalker whose abuse and obsessive behavior endangered his family, and Grace had lied to June about his death out of good intentions. It is eventually revealed that James hired Kevin to pose as a prospective boyfriend to find Grace and June, and to then bug June’s laptop so that James could tap into it, spy on June, and block her research. James kidnaps June and takes her to her old childhood house, where Grace is also detained. Realizing James has taken June, Grace puts up a fight, but James shoots her. James tries to leave with June, but the wounded Grace stabs him in the neck with a mirror shard. James locks them up and tries to search for a nearby hospital on his computer, but dies of blood loss. June, realizing James never shut off her laptop when he kidnapped her, uses the audio feed on the security cameras at the house to tell Siri to call 911. One year later, Grace has recovered from her gunshot wound, and June is off to college. Their story has also been adapted on Unfiction, and Javier reunites with his estranged son. Preparing for a visit home, June texts her mother she loves her, and Grace responds she loves her too.