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14 year old Amber Bailey lives in Dublin with her mother Sarah and younger brother Eamon. Sarah has recently parted from the children's father Ben, who runs a security firm but is still on good terms with him. Ben drops Amber off at a friend's house though it becomes apparent that she never got there and the police are called, DI Dunlop leading the investigation. CCTV shows Amber getting on a train, holding a bag, but when Sarah retraces the journey it comes to nothing and the bag is found in a river. Months elapse with no constructive leads and Sarah reluctantly allows her journalist friend to write an article on the disappearance. The result is emotive and sensationally-worded, angering Sarah though Maeve believes it may encourage a genuine witness to come forward.

Maeve Flynn Dunne is a former gossip columnist and a jaded socialite who has recently profited from her friendship with Sarah Bailey. Maeve is constantly broke, partly because of her lifestyle and partly because work has dried up for her. When she is contacted by a prisoner - Terrence O'Donoghue - claiming to have new information about Amber, she sees an opportunity to redeem herself in the eyes of Sarah. Maeve begins to do her own investigating and she is unwittingly used as a pawn in a desperate man's terrible plan.

The police show Amber's friend Jenny her Facebook page but Jenny is unable to identify Manga Boy, with whom Amber met briefly. On the day she disappeared Amber 's phone was stolen and ended up in a pawn shop with employee Charlie Huang, an illegal immigrant in debt to the gang who brought him from China to England. Seeing the publicity Charlie posts Amber's phone to Ben anonymously and then meets up with him at his office, pretending to be a volunteer in the search for Amber. Ben, however, is suspicious, especially as there is no evidence of the phone ever reaching the office. Ben calls the police and, as a consequence, Charlie is deported. Amber is still missing.

With a new job and boyfriend Sarah seems to be moving her life on but Ben is still convinced that Amber is alive and , in a brief moment of reconciliation with his ex-wife, celebrates Amber's birthday in her absence. Aware of her penchant for chatting on the Internet he becomes convinced that Amber has been abducted by a paedophile gang and enlists the help of 'Russian bride' Jolanta for information. To Sarah's horror, having told the police of his plan, he poses as a paedophile online and is able to locate a gang of sex traffickers, leading to arrests and the release of child victims. Two years on though Amber is still missing, having inexplicably gone on a country walk, passing a white van. Jenny is also seen in the company of Manga-Boy, whom she denied knowing.