A terrible thing happens to the famous writer Flora Conway - one day, after playing hide and seek, her little daughter Carrie disappears without a trace from her apartment in Brooklyn. The police have no leads or leads. After long months of anxious anticipation and strange coincidences, the grief-stricken Flora begins to suspect that behind this whole story there is someone who has thought out the crime down to the smallest detail. Across the ocean, in Paris, broken by life's troubles and the flu, novelist Romain Ozorski freezes in front of a flickering blue screen, suddenly feeling that fiction had become more real to him than life itself. He is the only one who knows the answers to the most terrible questions, and Flora will have to meet him face to face.