It makes a change for a Cookson drama to be set in the recession-hit Britain of the Thirties, rather than the Victorian era. Following the death of his lover and her husband, Abel Mason (Ciaran ...
When widow Riah Millican (Janet McTeer) agrees to become housekeeper for wealthy recluse Percival Miller (Bob Peck) she little realises what lies in store for her and her three daughters.