Nine years is a long time to keep looking for someone. That's the premise Netflix leans into with the trailer for Shaque: Trust No One, out Thursday, which marks Parineeti Chopra's first outing in a web series.

She plays a mother who hasn't stopped searching for her child since the day the kid vanished. The trailer doesn't waste time setting up the stakes, a family unravelling under the weight of a search that refuses to end, and a line that pops up early: "Who can she actually trust?"

That question does a lot of work here. As the mother digs deeper, the people around her start looking less like allies and more like suspects. Old friends, family, people she's known for years, everyone gets a shadow cast over them at some point in the cut Netflix has put out.

Parineeti has described the project as not like anything she's attempted so far, according to Bollywood Bubble. She's talked about the show leaning into a mother's gut instinct and her stubborn refusal to quit, which tracks with what the trailer shows, a woman who has stopped listening to people telling her to move on.

The supporting cast is stacked. Jennifer Winget, Soni Razdan, Anup Soni, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Harleen Sethi, Sumeet Vyas and Dhruv Chowdhary round out a lineup that suggests the show isn't short on subplots. Given the trailer's insistence that almost nobody is who they seem, that ensemble is probably going to earn its runtime.

Shaque: Trust No One comes from Rensil D'Silva and Siddharth P Malhotra, who created the series together. D'Silva also directs, with Sapna Malhotra and Siddharth P Malhotra producing.

The bigger question the trailer raises but doesn't answer is how far a hunt for the truth takes someone before it stops looking like determination and starts looking like something else. Nine years is enough time for grief and hope to blur into each other, and the show seems to be banking on that blur as its hook.

Netflix drops the full series on September 24. Whether Parineeti's television debut lands the way her film choices have in the past is the only thing left to find out.