After Margot (Michele La), goes missing, a local investigation is opened and Rosemary Vick (Debra Messing) is the detective assigned to the case. However, thirty-seven hours later and without a single lead, David (John Cho), Margot's father, decides to search where no one has looked yet, there were all secrets are kept nowadays: Margot's laptop. In this modern thriller completely told via technological devices we use every day to communicate, therefore shot from the point-of-view of smartphones and computer screens, David must trace his daughter's digital footprints before her disappearance.

'Searching' is the big-screen debut of writer and director Aneesh Chaganty, who had only directed short films until now.