When drama students Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand vanished no one s eemed to notice. Three days later Michaela, naked and bruised, flags d own a motorist on a remote mountain road. The story the young couple t ells is horrifying. Abducted by a gun-wielding stranger they were boun d, blindfolded and beaten.However soon suspicions about their story ta ke seed, particularly when a shop assistant identifies them as the cou ple who purchased rope identical to the one found at the crime scene - three days before their alleged abduction.When the couple finally adm it the hoax, psychologist Alex Delaware is asked to evaluate Michaela who is laying all the blame at Dylan s feet.Months pass, and the case fades from public and police scrutiny. Then Mikki Brand is savagely mu rdered. And Dylan is missing once again.