Jackman plays Keller Dover, a bully with a family and some friends. On Thanksgiving, the Dover and the Birch families meet for lunch and in the afternoon both their younger children disappear.

Enter detective Loki, played by Gyllenhaal and the hunt for the filthy kidnapper starts with the lengthy interrogation of suspect number one, Alex Jones. Alex is suitably creepy and with a shady past, but is that enough to make him a child abuser?

Drenched in the cold light of the winter season, with plenty of rain and snow, the movie manages to maintain a tense rhythm just about three quarters of the way. Then it collapses due to several problems: