Vancouver law student Ardavan Taherzadeh disappeared twenty-four years ago on a backpacking trip in India, from the Kullu Valley in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh. Lying on the banks of the glacial Beas River, the town of Kullu is towered by the snow-capped Himalayas and dotted with apple orchards. Yet evil lurks behind the picturesque setting. During his mother's search she learned that more than a dozen backpackers have vanished from this area in the past twenty years.