S01E01 Carol
Down-trodden single parent Carol works in a phone warehouse - from which she steals phones which she sells to a Chinese girl fence called Ying - gets no help with her lazy, vicious sons from...
Run
When every choice is a luxury, how do you make the biggest decision of your life?
S01E02: Ying
Illegal Chinese immigrant Ying is dependent upon Gao, brutal leader of the Snakehead gang, who sends her onto the streets of Brixton selling fake DVDs and fenced accessories. When she fails to earn enough to pay him her keep he rapes her in his car but, following a police raid on illegal immigrants, Ying flees. She finds sanctuary with Jamal, a kindly, divorced barber and stays with him in return for doing his cleaning. Whilst Ying is out Gao's thugs force their way into the barber shop, trashing it and assaulting Jamal. When Ying returns Jamal plans for them to go away together for a new life but, seeing herself as a liability, she leaves without him and goes to her aunt's house instead.
Overview
Four gritty no-holds-barred human stories of the streets, all linked together in some respect.
Episodes
S01E02 Ying
Illegal Chinese immigrant Ying is dependent upon Gao, brutal leader of the Snakehead gang, who sends her onto the streets of Brixton selling fake DVDs and fenced accessories. When she fails to earn enough to...
S01E03 Richard
Ex-heroin addict Richard is determined to stay clean but after being hauled in for police questioning thanks to a crooked friend he misses his contact visit with daughter Sabrina and learns from his ex-wife Yvonne...
S01E04 Katia
Kasia is informed that her boyfriend Tomek was killed by Carol's sons but there are other shocks to follow. He was also seeing another woman, lap dancer Tara, though when the two meet they actually...
Cast
Katharina Schüttler
Kasia
Katie Leung
Ying
Olivia Colman
Carol
Lennie James
Richard
Chris Jarman
DC Burgess
Simona Brown
Teenage Girl
Sarah Hoare
Tracey
Jaime Winstone
Tara
Benedict Wong
Gao
Orion Lee
Andy
