In My Father's Den (2004)

Paul, a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father. For the discontented 16-year-old Celia, he opens up a world she has only dreamed of. She actively pursues a friendship with him, fascinated by his cynicism and experience of the world beyond her small-town existence. But members of both their families frown upon their friendship and when Celia goes missing, Paul becomes the increasingly loathed and persecuted prime suspect in her disappearance.

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