Painfully shy Eva returns home on a police operation and ends up being trapped on an angry estate with which she has a dark and unfinished history.
Sinead, an 18-year-old girl from Sunny Hill, dies in police custody. Teenagers from the estate start rioting in protest, quickly followed by the other residents, including local drug dealer Kelly. Eva is posted there as part of the backup team summoned from Manchester with merciless Jackie leading the operation. The operation to contain the riot goes wrong and Eva gets trapped on the estate. She is forced to dump her uniform and go undercover.
Jackie puts pressure on Eva to stay in and fulfil her mission of defusing the riot, pushing her closer to her childhood nemesis, Kelly. Eva’s attempts to sabotage the community backfires when it pushes Kelly into
a position of leadership and she gets a taste for it. Eva is desperate to leave but the more she is forced to integrate the more she needs to stay.
All these external conflicts are re-igniting the internal conflicts of her past with this community and her family. Her dark childhood keeps creeping up on her and she is forced to face a violent outburst she had before she ran away at sixteen that resulted in Kelly having a late miscarriage.
Three women’s lives collide in a fight for justice, revenge and control.