DI Olivia Hardy is a firm but fair cop her new partner DS Lauren Groves has a very different background but the two women bond over the pressures of juggling complicated family lives with the horrors of the job. Both women try to reconcile their problematic family lives - Olivia's issues with her teenage children Lauren's collapsing marriage - with the demands of their job. Their beat is a decaying coastal town in the south of England - a shadow of its Victorian glory - and criminals lurk where you'd least expect them. As Olivia and Lauren investigate a harrowing murder events spiral - and so do the issues in their personal lives...