No one but the mother and the son's latest known lady friend seem to be worried not hearing about the son for a couple of weeks. When mother becomes anxious enough not hearing anything from her son, the mother gets her ex, the father, a small town police officer, to reluctantly start searching for the missing son.
And finally the father flies to West Coast to find more clues and there he meets some friends of the son.
Most chapters are mainly dialogue between two people, but the dialogue reveals the partakers, and their attitude quite well. And the father being a cop can ask the right questions, too, not always appreciating the answers.
And when in the end the father tells the anxious mother that the mission is completed, would you believe the mother would be content with that?