Georgia, 1972 .
But when a startling discovery is made by two brothers, it ignites a community\'s mandate for the truth, sending Harold on a quest to uncover the long-buried reality for himself..
Harold grows to maturity, still longing for the mystery to be solved, even though it appears to be hopeless.
If he could only have the closure that every person who loses a loved one needs and wants, maybe he could somehow get on with his life.
But his mother\'s inexplicable disappearance haunts him.
Since his father is an emotional wreck, and his older sister moves away, Harold takes on the heavy responsibility of helping his younger sister cope with the loss.
Helen and Jerry\'s son, thirteen-year-old Harold, takes the loss especially hard.
Weeks and months pass, and the family comes to slowly realize that something horrendous and tragic happened the summer of 1972.
The Harmon family can\'t believe that Helen would simply vanish, but the thought of foul play is just too horrible to contemplate.
After Helen Harmon drops her three children off at school and her husband, Jerry, leaves for his job as a security guard at the state prison, she heads to her office at the Winkler Outdoor Advertising Company in Valdosta, Georgia-and is never heard from again.
Georgia, 1972