A failed private investigator becomes entangled in the disappearance of a 17-year-old girl to clear a large gambling debt.

JOE HORIUCHI wakes up inside the boot of a moving vehicle, bound and gagged. Back to the present, gambling away nearly everything Joe owes a massive debt to ANURAK SONRAM (60s), a Thai restaurant owner who runs a gambling ring. Sonram filed a report, on his pregnant runaway granddaughter SARAI (17), as there are no suspicious circumstances, the police are not interested. He asks Joe to find her in return for clearing his debt. Joe accepts. He contacts hospitals, tries to locate her cell phone, and does an online search, personal information is impossible to acquire. He finds her friend who has a photo on her phone of Sarai with a hotel in the background. Going through the garbage he finds burnt photos of young girls. A car bumps his, he stops to check the damage and is attacked. A FIGURE takes the information he found from his car. Police arrive, they take him to the station.  He discovers the motel he visited was the site of a slave auction.  Joe relaizes she has not runaway, she was taken. Shuttered, old furniture. Sarai kicks and flails, pushed onto a couch, tied to the arm rail. DUCT TAPE over her mouth.