In a gaslit Victorian city rife with social hypocrisy, five youths from disparate, troubled homes make a shared, desperate wish for their parents to vanish. When they awaken to a world devoid of their guardians, their initial euphoria sours as they uncover a cryptic note hinting that their parents' disappearance was an orchestrated abduction, part of a city-wide conspiracy. They must now navigate the treacherous social labyrinth, deciding whether to expose the sinister plot and reclaim their families or to embrace their perilous new freedom and let the past die.