 Looking for Ricky  is an investigation into the disappearance of Ricky D Cotta, a London boy who left east London for the Tenerife 80 s club scene and never returned. It begins with interviews of people who knew Ricky as a boy, and then moves out to the island to try and trace Ricky s last moves in Tenerife. The story develops into an expose of the islands drug-fueled criminal underworld, in which everyone, from the editor of the local paper to the police, seems somehow implicated. In the course of the film it is discovered that 5 unidentified bodies exist, which may be Ricky s remains. Although DNA tests using samples from Ricky s family prove inconclusive, the final statement from Ricky s best friend reveals that Ricky was almost certainly murdered, following a botched robbery of a local drugs baron.