Changeling
To find her son, she did what no one else dared.
A grim, meticulously crafted true-crime drama about a mother's desperate fight against institutional corruption and disbelief, anchored by her maternal bond and the psychological toll of gaslighting.
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.
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