James “Jimmy” Gracey’s final hours unfolded in fragments: a crowded nightclub, a walk toward the dark shoreline, a stranger by his side, then silence. By the time police divers recovered his body from the Mediterranean, his parents had already crossed an ocean, clinging to hope that ended on a cold slab of certainty. Now, the accident theory competes with unsettling clues—a missing phone found on another man, an unidentified companion on grainy surveillance, a wallet drifting alone in the surf.
Back in Alabama, Jimmy is no longer just a student on spring break; he is the eldest of five suddenly missing from every family photo, a son whose empty chair remakes an entire household. As Catalan investigators retrace his final steps, his parents face a different task: learning to live in a world where the answers may come slowly, and never feel like enough.