A funeral, a secret sister, and a relationship that burns everything down.
At a family funeral, Trevor Orwin meets Jenny, the sister he never knew he had. The relationship that develops between them has a dramatic and violent effect.
Acting
Hazeldine and Holman's smoldering, wrong-footed chemistry.
Direction
Shergold's claustrophobic framing of middle-class desperation.
Director
Adrian Shergold
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of BBC's 'Screen Two' strand, when British TV regularly outshone cinema for risky adult drama.
Shergold later directed episodes of 'Happy Valley' and 'The Crown'—his fascination with contained domestic explosions started here.
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