A girl gets kidnapped, beaten up and is released.
A schoolgirl who has been missing for weeks returns home covered in bruises. She says two women kidnapped her, held her captive in an isolated house and beat her. Taken by the police to the house she described, she identifies it and the mother and daughter who live there. They call in a lawyer, who has only days to find evidence that will break the girl's story.—Anonymous
The Franchise is a secluded mansion inhabited by two reclusive women, one in her forties, the other her rather eccentric mother. A girl of 15 is found in a distressed state, with an extraordinary tale of having fled the mansion where she had been kept in forced captivity, beaten and half-starved. She is able to give a remarkably detailed account of the interior of the house and of her captors, all of it accurate but for one disturbing discrepancy. The clue is in the attic..
