MISSING LINK Treatment by Ricardo Mancebo

MISSING LINK

Ricardo Mancebo

Drama

Synopsis

Peter breaks off a relationship with his girlfriend to spend more time with his son, Danny. After eight years of being a solo parent, Peter must focus on the biggest event in his life: saving Danny from a genetic kidney disease by donating a kidney.

As the day for surgery quickly approaches, Danny becomes overwhelmed by thoughts of dying. Peter’s own fears as a father do little to reassure Danny that everything will be okay. It seems that the only comfort to Danny during his time of distress are thoughts of his absent mother someone who’s only regarded by Peter with elusive references.

When Peter tries to cheer up Danny by offering a vacation to anywhere on the globe where Danny’s finger randomly selects, it only backfires; when Danny selects China three times in a row, Peter refuses, stating that China is too far. But when Danny confronts him, and persists with his desire to go to China, Peter blows up, and swipes the globe onto the floor.

After the surgery, Xiao Mei, Peter’s estranged wife living in China, enters Peter and Danny’s lives, by tracking them down through a private investigator a mysterious man with binoculars. When Danny meets Xiao Mei, he learns for the first time that his mother is still alive, and that he is part Chinese.

Old emotions become rekindled, as Xiao Mei finds out that Peter left China with Danny because of her decision to live with her sick father, and because of the way her parents treated him and Danny. While Xiao Mei feels Peter blames her for Danny’s illness, since she is the carrier of the kidney disease the genetic missing link that she inherited from her father.

Once Peter sees how happy Danny is in his estranged mother’s arms, and realizes that Xiao Mei can bring new dimension to their lives a family he makes a decision to take Danny back to China her, and face a history that tore them apart.