'The Missing' is a drama told through a delicate and complex narrative that reflect the frantic battle for a lost child. When five year-old Oliver disappears from his holiday in France, it causes a manhunt that will last for many years. The series will go inside the mind of the father, Tony, a man desperate to find his lost son. Tony's frantic and exhausting search breaks his marriage to Emily and begins to consume his life. Julien who was the detective who had launched the initial search for the child, also finds himself drawn back into the hunt, in a desperate attempt to resolve the mystery of Oliver's disappearance. The story will be two over two time frames and in two countries.