Cath Hardacre is a good nurse. Caring and hard-working, she does her best for everyone in the cardiology ward she works on. However, when she raises her concerns about the standards slipping at the hospital her world takes a turn for the worse.
After being sacked for whistle-blowing, Cath turns to her best friend Dr. Ally Sutton, who is leaving her life as an A&E doctor and emigrating to New Zealand with her new husband. At a drunken party Cath finds Ally’s discarded paperwork and makes the desperate decision to take a second chance at life – by stealing her best friend’s identity.
Cath, now calling herself Ally, accepts a job at a failing emergency department in Edinburgh and embarks upon a new life with her young daughter Molly. However, with her good-for-nothing ex-partner Karl trying to spend time with them and a journalist chasing her about the issues at her former hospital, how will Ally cope with leading a double life?
cast
Jodie Whittaker as Cath Hardacre/Dr Ally Sutton
Emun Elliott as Dr Andy Brenner
Sharon Small as Dr Brigitte McAdams
Blake Harrison as Karl
key behind the scenes crew
Dan Sefton as Writer
Emily Feller as Producer
John Alexander as Director
Nicola Shindler as Executive Producer
show type
Psychological thriller
broadcast from
August 2017
network and production companies
BBC One – Red – BBC Scotland
country
UK