Struggling mum Sam discovers access to lucrative stock market information while working as an office cleaner at Canary Wharf.
The character-full drama focuses on an ordinary working-class woman, Sam, who is caught between two worlds: the everyday life of a devoted,loving Mum and the darker, dangerous world of insider trading. Sassy office cleaner Sam is one of an invisible army of cleaners on a zero-hours contract who mop, sweep, and vacuum in the early hours. Struggling with an on-line gambling addiction, Sam realises she has access to lucrative Stock Market information which, if used correctly, could be the answer to all her prayers. Set in the contrasting worlds of shiny Canary Wharf and the realities of modern suburbia, "Cleaning Up" explores how far Sam will go to survive, claw back some self-respect, and get her life back on track.—ITV
Sam is a cleaner and a hardworking mother of two girls, with an addiction to online gambling. Caught in between the worlds of working-class suburbia and glitzy Canary Wharf, Sam realises that she has access to lucrative stock-market information, which could answer her prayers.—Tom Daly