Warning: Spoilers ahead for Caddo Lake!Caddo Lake has a very intricate and complex timeline centered around the disappearance of Anna (Caroline Falk), but also manages to explain why she always goes missing. After she vanishes in 2022, her older sister, Ellie (Eliza Scanlen), goes looking for her, only to discover one dry part of the titular lake contains a mysterious location that exists between time periods. This location is also discovered by a young man named Paris (Dylan O'Brien) in his time, resulting in the main characters of Caddo Lake traveling to different years in various ways.

While it doesn't make it one of the best time travel movies, Caddo Lake's unique approach to the concept all centers around Anna's disappearance. The consequences of this are revealed throughout the movie, as she's found by Paris in 1952, who hands her to a group of dam workers in that time period. This results in Caddo Lake's twist,...