Will Lament's gripping story, Chasing Mandi, highlights the struggles of a loving family as they desperately try to get their beautiful daughter back home and to the drug addiction recovery she desperately needs.
The phone vibrates
on the kitchen table. Tammy picks up. "Mom, I'm not feeling well." It's Mandi, their youngest daughter.
On a day when Tammy and her husband Andy were going to spend an enjoyable Sunday, their plan changed. Little did they know that the next two weeks would be hell. They go to visit their youngest daughter, Mandi, only to find her boyfriend, John, dead. Concerns grow about Mandi. Is she okay? Did she take the same pills John took? Can we get Mandi to rehab and the care she needs? Tammy and Andy have wished for this moment for many years: to have Mandi safely back home and on to the professional care she needs the next day. But is this enough? A harrowing two weeks chasing Mandi about town seem never to end until a night in the dark, cold desert outside of town.