Season 2
10 episodes
44 min. per episode
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As life shifts around her, a woman confronts buried truths, redefining relationships and discovering strength she never knew existed.
Episodes
Anne,a middle-aged divorcee,spends her life caring for her mother,Bella,who has Alzheimer's Disease whilst following the progress of her son Chris,who is back-packing across South America. She meets John,also divorced,and they spend time together,letting Anne's married sister Lynne mind Bella. However Bella is used to living with Anne and Lynne tends to use this as an excuse to shirk her responsibilities.When Chris is mugged Anne decides to fly out,with John,to see him and asks Lynne to become Bella's carer for three weeks but Lynne feels that she would be better off in a care home. If Lynne refuses Anne will have wasted her money on the plane fares. Fortunately Bela has a far better understanding of family politics than either sister realises.
Mary Ann and Anthony are a childless couple,whose situation is not helped by the fact that her sister,Sarah, has three teen-aged kids. Their efforts to adopt Grace,a baby they fostered,are dashed when the birth mother wants her back and the couple are despairing,Anthony hitting the bottle. Then Mary Ann finds an abandoned baby in her car,with a note asking her to care for the child. She assumes the mother is one of the girls at the youth club where she helps out but none will admit to it.Anthony believes they should keep her, Mary Ann feels they must tell the police but then Sarah comes to visit with her brood and an explanation that solves everybody's problems is forthcoming.
Approaching her sixtieth birthday,Jean attends a school reunion,where the other women all seem to have had face-lifts,making her feel old. After she has Botox and a tummy-tuck in order to look slim in her birthday party dress,her husband Frankie rows with her over her apparent obsession with her looks and moves out. The situation leads to an airing of deep-seated marital grievances on both sides,with Jean particularly angry that Frankie seems to have spent all their savings. However he has a romantic explanation which leads to eventual reconciliation.
Mike,known as Moose,is paroled after a long prison sentence for his role in an armed robbery,to find his ex-wife Tina has been living for the past four years in their old house with Adam,who is like a father to their young daughter Jess. All three resent Moose's reappearance,leading to the men fighting in Adam's work-place,costing him his job. Then Adam learns that Moose did not take part in the armed robbery but took the blame as the real perpetrators were threatening his family. Seeing Moose in a different light and realising Tina still loves her ex-husband,Adam prepares to make a highly altruistic sacrifice.
Dental nurse Kirsty is shocked to discover that Lee,her partner who lives with her and her schoolboy son Sam,has successfully kept from her his long-term heroin use for several years. Her initial reaction is to take a counsellor's advice and throw him out but she misses him and determines to help him quit,giving up cigarettes to encourage him. But her expectations are very high,ultimately doing her more harm than good and she comes to appreciate that the only way forward for them both is to take a more detached,less judgmental view.
Series of daytime plays set in contemporary Britain, all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of life change.