Ali Kemp, a beautiful 19-year-old college student with a bright future, returns home for the summer to work at the local swimming pool. But one afternoon when Ali is nowhere to be found, her father makes a gruesome discovery; Ali's body in the pool pump room — she'd been brutally beaten to death. With her killer on the loose, investigators launch an intense investigation. But despite DNA evidence and a reliable witness, police search without success for three years. Then refusing to give up, Ali's father comes up with an idea that leads to her killer's arrest.