Detective Tom Adkins’ son Tommy Jr. disappears on a fateful Fourth of July afternoon, and in the ensuing eight years Tom’s work becomes an obsession for him. Tom attempts to solve the case of his missing son, but his efforts have yielded only one solid suspect ? an already jailed and convicted kidnapper named Roggiani, whose current sentence is on the verge of being commuted ? and no concrete proof. An early morning phone call leads Tom to the mangled remains of a young boy, buried in a box beneath the ground. At first Tom believes that the victim could be Tommy Jr., but forensic evidence reveals that this boy was murdered 50 years prior. Driven to solve the murder as a means of exorcising his own demons, Tom uncovers the long-forgotten mystery of a man named Matthew Wakefield and the disappearance of his son John.