Alice's mom comes from wealth. Her dad has become the father of AI. She interns at his company. But she realizes the harm his company will do to the world. Her dad fires her. She is still in college. She decides to relocate from school dorm to an off campus apartment in the ghetto.
Alice's mom comes to strong arm Alice into moving to a safer neighborhood. When mom leaves, she gets a note that Alice has been kidnapped. Mom rushes back to the apartment to find her daughter missing. The family works with the FBI to try to locate Alice and the kidnappers. They initially do not receive any ransom demands. Instead they get cryptic messages.
Alice describes an initial kidnapper as a buff woman with a gun and a disguise. Alice tries an escape from the getaway car. But she is recaptured. Another man joins the female kidnapper at some sort of compound. Alice figures out how to poison the male kidnapper. She escapes the compound, runs down the road, and slips through the fence.
Eventually Alice confesses that the kidnap story is not real. Her boyfriend is in on the ruse. So is her best friend Monica, plus Monica's girlfriend. Alice's dad figure it out and produces a fake ransom note. He also uses deep fake AI to produce a video fro Alice. Alice's boyfriend talks her to leaves the camp site they are hiding in, and they flee to his remote plane hangar.
They want to meet Alice's dad to broker a deal. The dad shoots the boyfriend. Then he forcibly takes Alice to control the narrative and muzzle her. Alice's mom questions Monica about a lie she told, and is able to piece together clues about the whole ruse. Mom goes to the boyfriend's hangar and rescues him. She also blocks Alice's dad from leaving with Alice.
Alice pleads to lessor punishment. Her boyfriend is framed as a kidnapper. Her dad has a story about him saving his daughter from the kidnapper. Alice and her mom reconcile as she serves a minimal prison sentence and returns to school.
