A late night knock sends writer SEBASTIAN WREN mentally back 30-some years because the woman at the door resembles his former lover, MORGAN O'CONNOR. It is Morgan's born-out-of-wedlock daughter CHELSEA. She came to solicit Sebastian's help to get back her kidnapped mother. Sebastian realizes Chelsea could not be his daughter, but the twin mysteries of her parentage and her mother's abduction, along with a scant clue on a cell phone, send the pair to L.A. The couple trek north only to face kidnappers that manage to pull a switch; Morgan is free, but Chelsea becomes captive, and a plot more sinister than kidnapping and simple ransom is finally revealed.