Clint Eastwood directs this thriller based on true events that took place in 1920s California. Angelina Jolie stars as Christine Collins, a mother who thinks her prayers have been answered when her kidnapped nine-year-old son is returned to her. However, she quickly realises that the boy with whom she has been reunited is not in fact her son. She must now face a corrupt police force & a seemingly immovable legal system to continue the fight to find her own son. Slandered by the press as unstable & delusional, she eventually finds an ally in activist Reverend Briegleb (John Malkovich), who helps her take on the authorities & track down her missing son.