Avery Spencer's quiet, predictable life in Dagenham, East London, is viciously turned upside down when Jessica, a teenager she's known since birth and raised like her own, mysteriously vanishes during weekday choir practice at the local church. When all seven witnesses deny any knowledge of Jessica's whereabouts, Avery smells foul play, and is determined to learn the truth, and find Jessica. But with each discovery she makes, she finds something or someone blocking her way, hindering the truth of what really happened from coming to light. Yet she is determined to save Jessica, or at the very least bring the culprit to justice.
Dolly is trapped - trafficked as a minor to Italy, at eighteen she fled from Rome to the UK in the back of a Lorry. Now living in the shadows in London, she finds herself struggling to survive, and avoid deportation. Destitute, desperate, and determined not to return to walking the streets at night, she takes shelter at a church. Her hope for a better life seems all but lost, until she witnesses a kidnapping, and not just any kidnapping - one that could make her hundreds of thousand of pounds richer, if she plays her cards right… Fuelled by greed, Dolly - with the help of an accomplice - puts together a plan of blackmail, and in the process conceals evidence which could save a missing teenager. But she soon becomes fearful that she's bitten off more than she can chew, and wants to back out, but can't. Going to the police for help means inevitable deportation, and staying silent means imminent death. Afraid and penniless, she doesn't know what to do...
