Very powerful show about difficult things. The emotions are relatable, to me.

So spoiler??? I am not sure its a spoiler really as it happens quite early but just in case... So far the acting and pace is good. I've no problem with that. My problem is the photo dad is showing he says the yellow scarf is his sons because he was wearing it when he was abducted... however when they show the abduction scene the son is not wearing the scarf. The scarf did make an appearance earlier but he was not wearing it when he was abducted. Anyways, that's my little review, its a personal thing with me when a mistake takes me out of the movie or show. If it doesn't bother you, then just ignore me! :)

Or really like/find irritating.LIKE: Acting, setting, direction, writing, help with my French.DISLIKE: Writing.I like so much about this - but the police are such idiots I CANNOT believe they are so stupid and incompetent in France. They get an address for the scarf and in that basement there is the EXACT drawing that boy makes... the reactions of the police - the way they keep saying "no concrete evidence" - has me almost yelling at my television. BOTH of those things absolutely ARE concrete evidence. The way they closed the case so early? Don't they keep them open for decades in France? Surely, they do. And such an issue reopening it? C'mon!The mother agreeing with the police on those points is absolutely absurd. NO loving mother would act that way.Those things, which are so basic to the plot, are driving me nuts. And I CAN'T talk about it on the message boards because IMDb took them away from us! Aaaarrrrgggghhhh!!! Would LOVE to discuss these things with others.Grumble... grumble... grumble... I'm going to keep watching, but I am quite irritated by these things.

Most of the action takes place in France but it concerns an English family, father and mother plus child, going on vacation to France. The child disappears in Châlons du Bois one evening when everyone is watching some football competition outdoors since we are in July and television screens can be moved. We are in 2006. It will take eight years for the truth to finally surface and justice – more or less – be satisfied with the official death declaration of the child in 2014. The child was at that time under the responsibility of the father who took him into a crowd of football supporters and let him go. Within minutes he had disappeared and the assumption was that he had been abducted by some human traffickers.The series is then very surprising in the amateurish way of dealing with things. The disappearance of the child is classified as an unsolved case soon after the abduction and will only be revived in 2014 when some new elements appear.But the film is in many ways a debunking – and yet not exactly unbiased – of all kinds of absurd preconceived ideas. Abducted you said, then it has to be by the Romanians who are more or less getting some kind of a living by trafficking in the region, and more generally in France. Two girls are drug-addicts, the daughter of the main French detective and the sister of one of the Romanian traffickers. When you add to this the wife of an architect who more or less encouraged his pedophilia for her own comfort, the wife of the hotel manager who tries to keep his alcoholism under control but does not put him on a leash, a real detox treatment, the film is definitely not very woman-friendly. The only positive woman among these few women is the Romanian who manages to detox herself with some help from the French detective and to get a job as an English teacher: a European benefit in a way since she must have had a Romanian diploma of some kind that was automatically accepted in France.The mother on the other hand is seen as volatile. She is nearly, and she says so later on, relieved by the decision to stop the investigation. She is not really supportive and in spite of all she says that the child will always be present in her mind, she pushed him aside rather fast. Mourning can be quite different for many people. The result is that the film is dominated by some men, which is slightly sexist. The "juge d'instruction" (District Attorney) is a man, the father is hyper dominant, the main detective is a man. The Moroccan junior detective is a man. The main journalist, a Moroccan, is a man too. The architect who is a serial pedophile is a man. The local pedophile who will move to England to escape France after his stint in prison for possession of indecent and inappropriate pictures on his laptop is a man of course. To expand on this point, I should say pedophilia is depicted in the most repulsive way with the architect more or less supported by his wife and the local isolated one ending up hanging himself in England because he cannot get rid of his disease, as he called it, with some good old medical treatment that after a while make him vomit when he sees a boy and the boy's eyes connect with him. And of course he writes a note to his mother. Those are clichés and they are NOT SO TRUE.But the main actor is also very good and he impersonates a father who is unstable, resolute to the point of following his first impression, violent every single time he meets with something that blocks his way. He is not at all reluctant at killing someone if he so decides he has to. His first impression has to be the good one and if he thinks this or that man, always men, is the culprit he will by accident kill him or try to kill him. He can hardly be kept under control by the main detective in 2006, and later on retired detective entrusted with the reopening of the case in 2014. What is surprising is that the police seems to be good as for their field work, though they will not get an essential piece of evidence because the Moroccan junior detective will leak it to the Moroccan journalist who is blackmailing him. That piece of evidence will only be recuperated in 2014 and after the Moroccan junior detective has been killed in prison just before he could and would tell the retired detective, his own son who accepted to see his father, and the parents of the abducted child. Rats are not liked in prison (and of course the wardens just plainly closed their eyes. One more cliché that is slightly worn out.The French police is shown in the most unfavorable way and through the eyes of an Englishman who is able to commit the worst crimes without any real evidence, just from the knack of the moment, from the very start this father has an anti-pedophile stance and conviction that is nearly nothing but fundamentalist bigotry. The series does not exploit this element at the psychological level concerning the father himself. Such a level of hostility could and should make people think he is at least a closet pedophile with his own son and wants to keep him for himself. Any extreme position like this one reveals the person concerned is suffering from what he or she exposes. We have known that since Shakespeare: "The lady protests too much." And too much this father does protest against pedophiles. And of course his son's abduction had nothing to do with pedophiles. [...]Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU