The disappearance and discovery of the body of four-year-old Paulette Gebara Farah shocked Mexico in 2010, after a very public appeal by her family. While the death was eventually ruled an accident, the investigation into why her family lied about her death captivated the country. The Search is a fictionalised account of this case. In March 2010, the house manager of the Gebara family’s modern apartment in the posh and heavily-protected Mexico City suburb of Interlomas goes to wake Paulette and finds that she’s gone. She goes to her father, Mauricio (Fernando Bonilla), who barely seems to care. Then she checks with Paulette’s mother, Lizette Farah (Veronica Bravo), and she’s barely awake enough to care. But eventually the Gebaras get concerned and they call in some favours to get the case looked into immediately. We cut to the office of Alberto Bazbaz (Dario Yazbek), the attorney general for the state of Mexico. He has ambitions beyond being a state A.G., and he needs a big case. That’s when he’s called about Paulette Gabara’s disappearance. It piques his attention because the Gebaras are friends of the governor and because she disappeared from the supposedly secure Interlomas. He tells his second in command to get his best prosecutor on it, but the best one who is available is Alfredo Castillo (Adrian Ladron), who would rather work on his narcotics cases than a missing girl case. As Castillo interviews the family and their employees, their stories don’t add up. And when Lizette’s best friend, Amanda de la Rosa (Diana Bovio) comes to the apartment for support, all sorts of monkey wrenches get thrown in. When the lead about Lizette and Amanda’s trip bears fruit, Castillo has the house bugged. All the performances are great, with Yazbek and Bovio as the standouts. And, knowing what the actual outcome of it is, and how shocking the girl’s death is, will likely be what keeps eyeballs glued to the series.

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