Publisher's Synopsis
Four-part British drama set in London starring Olivia Colman and Lennie James. Carol (Colman) is a single mother with a guilty conscience struggling to protect her family in tough urban surroundings; Ying (Katie Leung) is an Asian immigrant forced into illegal trade to pay back the gang who smuggled her into the country; Richard (James) is a drug addict on the mend, hopeful of reuniting with his teenage daughter; and Kasia (Katharina Schüttler) is a young Polish woman quickly becoming more and more frustrated with her lack of prospects in the city. The story follows these four people after a random act causes their lives to become intertwined and each are then faced with tough decisions about the future.