In June 2002, Elizabeth Ann Smart (Alana Boden) was a 14-year-old girl if she had been abducted from her Salt Lake City home by religious fanatic Brian David Mitchell (Skeet Ulrich). He brought into a hilly encampment where, together with his twisted accomplice Wanda Barzee (Deirdre Lovejoy), he held Elizabeth captive. She had been crushed, drugged, raped and subjected to religious rituals before she enabled her own rescue.