Christopher Eccleston plays Greg whose wife Marie walks out on him after 19 years of marriage. He has no idea why she tipped over the edge but ends up looking after their three kids as well as go to work and earn a living.
Greg still loves his wife and cannot understand why she left. Eventually Greg forms a relationship with Brenna who has fled her abusive husband. Brenna who has a son is brassy, in your face and rather vulgar. Greg's oldest son does not take to her. Her husband's violence behaviour puts Greg and Marie's children at risk.
Marie enters a custody battle for her youngest kids. The court case reveals truth of both people's behaviour, it is a battle where both of them could be losers.
Eccleston has a nice stab at an Ulster accent. The drama initially portrays Marie as a bad woman, someone who abandons her kids so she could be a teenager again, drink, party and date other men.
However nicely acted it was, the whole thing came across as rather a beige family melodrama. The wife who felt she was frustrated and hemmed in. The husband who thought he did nothing wrong. There were some jolts here and there but nothing that raised it out of the ordinary.
Greg still loves his wife and cannot understand why she left. Eventually Greg forms a relationship with Brenna who has fled her abusive husband. Brenna who has a son is brassy, in your face and rather vulgar. Greg's oldest son does not take to her. Her husband's violence behaviour puts Greg and Marie's children at risk.
Marie enters a custody battle for her youngest kids. The court case reveals truth of both people's behaviour, it is a battle where both of them could be losers.
Eccleston has a nice stab at an Ulster accent. The drama initially portrays Marie as a bad woman, someone who abandons her kids so she could be a teenager again, drink, party and date other men.
However nicely acted it was, the whole thing came across as rather a beige family melodrama. The wife who felt she was frustrated and hemmed in. The husband who thought he did nothing wrong. There were some jolts here and there but nothing that raised it out of the ordinary.