In 1997, a Texas family received word that their son, who they reported missing four years earlier at the age of thirteen, had been found alive in Spain. Overjoyed by his return, the family glossed over such trivial aberrations such as the boy's changed facial features or his development of a French accent. After heads begin to turn following several television appearances, a local private investigator gets involved in the case and even more sinister implications begin to be drawn. The Imposter is nothing more than an extended episode of unsolved mysteries, laying on its intriguing story extra thick, and ultimately gearing you up for nothing.