mariemeryl
Twenty-five years have passed since Amy Dunne's "miraculous" return shocked the nation. To the world, the Dunnes are the epitome of American resilience. For her children, William and Katherine, their home in Carthage, Missouri, has always been a stage where performance was the only way to survive.
Amy is now a "conscious motherhood" coach and book writter, hiding her psychopathy behind meticulously calculated smiles. Nick, consumed by resentment and alcohol, has become the mirror of his own father, whom he so hated: distant, bitter, and emotionally volatile.
William Elliot Dunne is the "Gone Boy." Charismatic, brilliant, and cold, he is Amy's masterpiece. As the Golden Child, he learned early on that loyalty to his mother guarantees power. But Katherine, the youngest, grew up in the shadow of rejection. Inheriting her father's skepticism and her mother's strategic intelligence, she became the "Black Sheep"-the only one capable of seeing through the cracks in the family facade. The siblings' reunion for their parents' silver anniversary triggers a torrent of traumatic memories. As they revisit the secrets of a surveilled childhood, Katherine's present becomes a distorted mirror of the past: she is trapped in a marriage with a dangerously violent and narcissistic man, a man she chose because of the familiarity of abuse.
Cornered, Katherine realizes that to survive and finally unmask her mother, she cannot simply be the victim like her father. She needs to embrace Amy Dunne's dark legacy. To destroy a monster, she will have to execute a plan as meticulous, cruel, and "exemplary" as the one her mother created decades ago.