They begin the journey to Chicago in the RV. She would do anything to keep her daughter safe. After some convincing by her daughter, Mary tells Ming to give her paper so she can make a list of needed supplies for the trip.Īt 30 days, Mary’s voice narrates saying that what kept her going was hope and her daughter’s love. When Ming asks what Mary would do if someone asks about her in the RV, she admits she would say she is being held against her will. Ming says he has been invited to attend a conference in Chicago and he’s rented an RV to take them with him. Ming explains that it’s his cousin, Brian but there is an extra layer of padding on the floor in the closet so Brian can’t hear Mary and Beth. When Ming returns home later, Beth asks if Ming is keeping someone else in the basement. They pretend to be asleep and then hear music coming from the basement. After he's apparently left, Mary and Beth hear the door open and then hear noise in the kitchen. He returns later with the bible and says he is leaving the house again. They suggest looking through Mary’s old school yearbooks in case it was someone she knew through school.īefore Ming leaves the next day, he asks if he can pick up anything for Mary and her daughter. He notifies the police who suggest someone with familiarity with electronics may have been listening to them. There is dirt with shoe prints on the ground, and a small hole in the ceiling under the bedroom. Ming puts the little girl back in the closet and Mary’s muffled sounds are heard.īack at the house, Mary’s husband Irve is in the basement and realizes the window is open. Mary begs him not to and says she’ll do what he asks. Ming grows increasingly agitated and threatens to suffocate Mary’s daughter with plastic wrap. This makes Mary ask if he had been listening to her family and if he has been in her house. Ming asks her to make love to her like she does to her husband, calling out his name. Mary says she can’t do that while she is married to her husband. This upsets Ming who says he was making love to her but she wasn’t making love to him. She tells him she can’t when she has been raped. He asks if she is having a good birthday. On her birthday Ming rapes Mary and then video interviews her. Ming keeps Mary and Beth locked in his closet and forces Mary regularly to do video interviews. Ming would then take Mary and Beth and kept them locked in his house where he threatened to kill the rest of the family should they try to escape or get help. Jason is later removed from the trunk and it is unknown what happens to him. During the kidnapping, a boy named Jason sees the abduction and is forced into the trunk of Mary's car by Ming along with Mary and Beth. When leaving a salon, Mary Stauffer and her daughter, Beth, are abducted at gunpoint by Mary's former student Ming Sen Shiue. In 1980, the Stauffer family is planning a mission trip. ( May 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This section's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed.