L'absente

- Season 1

(2021)

A young woman wakes up in hospital after a car accident. Completely amnesiac, she has forgotten everything, including her identity, but the police recognise Marina Masson, a girl kidnapped eleven years ago. Her parents, now separated, hurry to her. Then the body of the suspected kidnapper, Ivan Claes, is found.

Marina secretly meets someone called Maël, with whom she's planning to run away. As Laurent Masson, Marina's father, becomes closer to Hélène, his ex-wife, and their children, an identity card in the name of Alexandra Martinez is found in the jacket Marina had lost. Is she an imposter?

Alex/Marina discovers the joy of having a family and a loving mother, making her little sister Éléonore very jealous. She decides to become Marina for good and breaks off with Maël, the friend she'd been through so much with. But Laurent thinks she's lying and secretly requests another DNA test.

A young woman hit by a car wakes up in the hospital with complete memory loss. If she no longer knows who she is, the police think they know Marina, who was abducted eleven years ago. But is it really Marina?

Hélène admits that eleven years earlier, Marina had run away after surprising her with her lover. And that was when she was kidnapped. Superintendent Victoire Eberhart discovers that the man who has been pulling the strings since the beginning is none other than Paul, her lieutenant and Laurent's best friend.

In Ivan Claes' trunk, Laurent discovers a bloody towel and Marina's bracelet. He gives them to Paul for analysis, but the latter burns them. Laurent drags him into the forest, ready to kill him if he won't tell him where his daughter is buried. But Paul isn't the murderer.

Alex is visited by her real mother, Sylvie, who had abandoned her as a baby. Laurent has found Marina's murderer. He takes him to his boat and heads out to sea to torture him. Victoire realises that it's Sully, Hélène's ex-partner, who has been kidnapped by Laurent.

Arrested on his return to harbour, Laurent denies killing Sully. He'd gone fishing and the fish blood masks any evidence the police could have hoped to find. But Victoire is convinced he has taken his revenge. Hélène tells Alex that she has known for a while that she isn't Marina.