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United KingdomDramaTV-MA1 Season | 4 Episodes

Carol is a tough single mother striving to keep her family together. Richard is a recovering heroin addict who spends every day struggling to stay clean. Ying is a vulnerable immigrant livin

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4 Episodes

Carol is a single mum whose teenage sons commit an act of random violence that ends in the death of a stranger. Carol turns to the boys’ estranged father Kieran for help, but soon discovers that when it comes to making the impossible choice between protecting them and doing the right thing, she’s on her own.

Ying is an illegal immigrant from the Fujian province of China who sells pirate DVDs and stolen phones at cafés, pubs and barbershops around Brixton. When an immigration raid leaves her with no friends, no home and no money, Ying finds her only chance of refuge from the Snakehead Gang she is in debt to in the shape of Jamal, the owner of one of the barbershops she sells her DVDs at; An unlikely bond forms between the pair.

Richard is a middle-aged addict who is struggling to stay off drugs so that he can reestablish contact with his teenage daughter Sabrina. As events seem to conspire against him, Richard finds his efforts constantly thwarted and he is soon torn between remaining in the world of his fellow addicts and choosing the harder path which may see him salvage the only relationship that matters to him.

Katrina is a Polish woman who has been running a marriage scam with her boyfriend Tomeck, finding European women to marry Asian men for money so they can stay in the country. But Tomeck has been missing for two weeks, and when Katrina discovers that he was in debt to vicious loan sharks she is forced to take extreme measures to honor his debts.