The Stolen Girl delves into the search for a nine-year-old child, Lucia, who disappears during a visit to her new best friend’s house.
Her mother, Elisa Blix (Denise Gough), is a busy air-hostess who balances working life and taking care of her two children with her husband, Fred.
Quite literally overnight, her life is thrown into turmoil as the case of her missing daughter develops.
The house she dropped Lucia off to stay at turns out to be a holiday rental and both the friend and her mother, Rebecca, have vanished too.
Hitting Disney+ on April 16 (Wednesday) it also stars Holliday Grainger, Beatrice Campbell and Jim Sturgess.
Though fictional, The Stolen Girl has several eerie details that are similar to the real-life tragic case of Madeleine McCann who went missing in 2007.
Though fictional, The Stolen Girl has several eerie details that are similar to the real-life tragic case of Madeleine McCann who went missing in 2007
When three-year-old Madeleine (pictured) disappeared while on holiday in Portugal with her parents, one of the most recognisable pH๏τographs used to raise awareness of her disappearance was one of the young girl looking up into the camera
In The Stolen Girl, the pH๏τograph used has striking similarities with Lucia posed looking upwards towards the camera, unsmiling
When three-year-old Madeleine disappeared while on holiday in Portugal with her parents, one of the most recognisable pH๏τographs used to raise awareness of her disappearance was one of the young girl looking up into the camera.
Her hair was cut into a shoulder-length bob and her noticeable eye abnormality was visible.
In The Stolen Girl, the pH๏τograph used has striking similarities with Lucia posed looking upwards towards the camera, unsmiling.
During the drama, some people place the blame on Elisa who made the rash decision to allow Lucia to stay over at her new friend’s house without even properly getting to know the family first.
She had only briefly met Rebecca, the child’s mother, before agreeing to let her daughter stay overnight.
And Elisa’s mother-in-law harshly claimed, ‘She spent half her childhood with me while you were up in the air.’
While Madeleine’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, were formally named as suspects by Portuguese police in September 2007.
However, their status as suspects was cleared in July 2008.
During the drama, some people place the blame on Elisa who made the rash decision to allow Lucia to stay over at her new friend’s house without even properly getting to know the family first
While Madeleine’s parents, Kate and Gerry McCann (pictured), were formally named as suspects by Portuguese police in September 2007. However, their status as suspects was cleared in July 2008
Elisa also experiences unpleasant judgement from the public online during the series, which echoes the cruel trolling Madeleine’s parents have also faced.
Directed by was WHO, The Stolen Girl’s horrifying tale, dubbed ‘a parent’s worst nightmare’ by The Times, has received raving reviews so far.
It currently has an impressive 83% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has even been praised by The Conversation for making a young female victim centre stage, in the same way Adolescence brought the spotlight on boys.
The Stolen Girl is available to stream on Disney+.
