Nina Moyse decides to completely exclude herself from society. However, everything changes when she discovers that she feels a desire for some form of human interaction.
Follows Megan, who in a desperate attempt to keep her new job at a Welsh warehouse, presses Alys – who is pregnant – to get her "pick rate" up, putting her and her baby at risk.
집을 잃은 후 잘 곳도, 머물 곳도 사라진 가족. 로지와 남편 존, 그리고 어린 네 아이들은 작은 자동차에 의지해 새로운 보금자리를 찾아 나선다. 오늘만 견디면 될 거라고 생각했던 내일이 반복되면서, 당장 밤을 함께 보낼 방 한 칸 조차 구하지 못하는 극한의 상황까지 도달한 가족. 설상가상 이웃들까지 로지의 이러한 상황을 눈치채고 마는데… 로지는 세상의 냉혹함과 마주한 현실 속에서 사랑하는 가족을 지켜내려 발버둥치기 시작한다.
Katia, a young Polish woman adrift in London, meets Bob, an American tattoo artist. Katia is drawn to his mysterious aura and the taboo culture of body modification, but Bob has a dark, secret desire to leave his mark on the world and little does Katia know that her fascination with him will put her life in danger.
When Matthew explores the 'spiral' in his grandmother's garden (a strange structure built by his late grandfather) he discovers an entrance into the magical world of 'the Shadows' where he meets his new Shadow friends, Yorrick and Alice, and begins his great adventure.
Eoin is a businessman who can no longer pay the bills or the mortgage, Paul is a landlord with the banks breathing down his neck, and Monika is a Polish cleaner whose minimum wage job is under threat. All three are struggling for survival and forced into increasingly desperate actions in the hope of keeping their lives and families together. Through separate but interlinked stories their choices will affect their own lives as well as each others.
