Catherine Burke (Holmes) is under pressure. She faces exams, completion of her thesis, and a competitive interview process, all of which is compounded when a police detective, Wade Handler (Bratt), begins investigating the two year-old disappearance of her boyfriend, Embry Langan (Hunnam), a young man whose memory haunts and obsesses her. As the investigation continues, Catherine is forced to choose between her past passions and new possibilities, even as Handler is discovering surprising new facts about Embry and his possible connection to another disappearance from campus.

Katie Burke still has not recovered from her freshman romance 2 years earlier with Embry, and his mysterious disappearance still haunts her. The trail is cold, but detective Wade Handler enter Katie's chaotic campus life to put the pieces of Embry's vanishing and of his own life together.