S4.E5 ∙ The War

Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. Lola is pregnant again but she and their daughter Lucia are left to starve while Ricardo spends all their savings on a sleek new set of wheels for his mistress. When he dies unexpectedly the family fortune, one flash car, remains with the mistress. Despite all his betrayals, Lucia sides with her father. Desperate and destitute in a country she doesn't like or understand, Lola's quest for revenge begins. Caught in the tempests of begrudging love, revenge, sibling rivalry, jealousy and passion, fourteen year old Lucia must find the strength to survive on her own terms. Aided to break free of her mother by her eccentric Aunt Manolo she struggles to find her own identity and her own quest for justice puts her on a collision course with her mother.

Sam Peterson returns home after 15 years to find all is not 'WELL' nor what it seems in his home town.

Nine characters gathered around their own bog, live their virtual lives, fostering the illusion that they are somebody else.

Blinded by the urgency of addiction, two junkies embark on a desperate odyssey to get their next fix.

Jan works on a Denmark/Sweden ferry, where he's unpopular. His antagonistic wife is violent. His boss sends him to group therapy, where he befriends two wife-beating mechanics and asks them for help. Big mistake.

In the tradition of classic classroom dramas such as To Sir, with Love (1967), comes the story of dedicated teacher Conor MacMichael (Glenda Jackson), who tries to reach out and give to her pupils, juvenile delinquents, at a London alternative school.