The Vanishing of Willa Sloan

When fifteen-year-old Isabelle’s mother, Willa, vanishes in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, she is devastated. The investigation, overrun by unprecedented challenges, goes cold, forcing Isabelle to move on with her life without any answers or closure. Ten years later, Isabelle discovers that her mother secretly endured several years of sexual exploitation while studying at the Ballet National de Paris as a teenager. Completely shocked by this revelation, Isabelle can’t help wondering if these horrifying events are somehow connected to her mother’s disappearance. As Isabelle travels to Paris to dig into her mother’s unimaginably dark past, she learns the lengths to which her mother was willing to go in order to keep her secret traumas buried. Eventually, Isabelle is forced to ask herself the tough question: Do you ever truly know someone?