A mother is tied up in her home while her daughter is kidnapped, and this is made all the more scary by the fact that they are from Hong Kong and don't know Canada that well. But their kidnappers seem to know a lot about them.
New Year 1991. A youngster receives no answer from his phone calls to his mother, so goes to her house, where he finds her dead in a pool of blood. His distress is further compounded when he is accused of the crime.
In 1994 in the Seattle area, a South Asian family who formerly lived in Canada are reported dead by their son and his friend, who say they found them after a night out.
It's Christmas 1983 at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario and young anthropologist Dora Ferguson, who was in a happy relationship with a fellow professor, is found tied up and dead on campus.