Isolation Stories, a series of four short dramas depicting life in lockdown.
Synopsis
Episode 1: Mel
Sheridan Smith stars in the first episode entitled Mel.
Alone, heavily pregnant, and fed up with life, Mel faces having to go through birth without the married father of her child – who has chosen to stay with his wife and family – and without her own family, who have given her the cold shoulder.
She might be the only person in the country who doesn’t mind isolation. At least everyone else will understand what it’s like to be miserable.
Cast
- Daniel Lawrence Taylor as Kwame
- Jessica Gunning as Stranger
- Kieran O’Brien as Stranger’s Husband
- Nina Wadia as Yasmine
- Philip Jackson as Peter
- Rhianne Barreto as Carly
- Sally Baxter as Alison
- Sheridan Smith as Mel
- Directed by Paul Whittington
- Produced by Tom Dunbar
- Written by Gaby Chiappe
Isolation Stories starts at 9pm on ITV.