Overview

In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.

Genres

Cast

Pauline Collins

Sylvia

Derrick O'Connor

Alan

David Webb

Defence Counsel

Howard Lew Lewis

Wandsworth Prison Officer

T.R. Bowen

Sylvia's Lover

Paddy Joyce

Dobbs

Leslie Grantham

Peter

Brian Coburn

Prisoner

Iain McColl

Gartree Prisoner

Martin Phillips

Prisoner

Maurice Bush

Prisoner

Tony Rohr

Prisoner