Broken threads Believing the word of an adult, the boy was captured by a calculating invader who let the child’s life down a broken path, tearing him away from the family with his parents and toddlers, forcing him to admit false fatherhood, stretching for seven years of deception and violence, the end of which could not put neither the protracted search nor the investigation, none of the neighbors or school teachers who did not notice any special difficulties in it.
Seven years later, he got out on his own, pulling out of the trap the new victim of his irrepressible “parent”, flirting with teenagers and boys of all ages, remaining a respectable “holy father” in the eyes of the public, who did not unravel the secret of the restless man, hiding, changing California cities.
The truly sensational story of Stephen Steiner stirred up America at one time, forcing him to seriously care about the persecution of kidnappers and molesters of minors, and the further life of a teenager became the subject of a journalistic investigation, who learned about the new troubles of a freed prisoner, which continued his already far from comfortable life in a real family and not the former world, which turned out to be unfriendly for a completely different boy, as he returned to his parental home.
Raised by a stranger, according to special rules and principles, fourteen-year-old Steiner had a rich, but not the most decent experience, retaining a critical attitude, both to his own life and to relations between people, and certainly could not meet the expectations of his parents who waited for his return, who considered seven years of his son’s absence as a pause in the video, again launched by pressing the “Play” button, but instead of continuing the long-awaited idyllic chronicle of family life, followed by a shocking montage glue with a stranger who invaded her, obstinate and not thy, suppous and suppressive, in a young man who is rude and feeling himself.
Using the television format, the director generously spends time on the chronology of Kidnapping, following the trail of a frightened child who accepts the order of things imposed on him with a set of personal compromises that develop into a very ambiguous nature, controversially perceived by the teenager himself, who begins to redetermine his place in the world, which, in fact, was the root cause that prompted him to escape.
The turned page marked the beginning of a new chapter, which turned out to be the development of the old drama, bearing new pain, in which the face of Corin Nemek, who feels it as his own, makes the main character the support of the whole story of upside down life, in turn, changed public opinion, so that he owed freedom not only to the stolen Timmy White.
The second part of the picture is personalized by the fate of Steven Steiner, where the actor goes far beyond the facts of the real story, delving into the depths of the teenage consciousness, which has outgrown its fourteen years, fully aware of personal dissonance and disorientation, insurmountable neither by him nor by the family that has withdrawn from him, the exit of which is an early marriage that freed parents from conflicting custody of a self-organized boy, and the boy from confrontation with innocent relatives.
The film retains the names of real people who were still alive by the time this painting was publicly displayed, with which Stephen continued his dialogue with society, showing him the science that was and remains his very, very bitter example.