Changeling

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.

• biography
• based on true story
• clergyman
• child in peril
• police corruption
• los angeles, california
• single mother
• street urchin
• missing child
• mental asylum
• mental hospital
• shock treatment
• 1920s
• missing son
• mother son relationship
• desperate woman
• disbelieving cop
• child abduction
• telephone switchboard operator
• female hysteria
• police coverup
• apathetic