Jordan Louis

A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.

Danni is a young skinhead girl who’s struggling with her home life and falls in with the wrong crowd. When Terry Harrison, her late brother’s best friend arrives back in town, it’s up to him to try and guide her back onto a better path before she gets into some trouble no one can get her out of.

Over the course of four decades, the personal lives of a quartet of Newcastle friends—Nicky, Geordie, Mary, and Tosker—intertwine with various political machinations, often for the worse: slum housing projects, police corruption, the rise of Thatcherism, political sleaze, and specific events like the 1984 Miners' Strike.