Over the course of four decades, the personal lives of a quartet of Newcastle friends—Nicky, Geordie, Mary, and Tosker—intertwine with various political machinations, often for the worse: slum housing projects, police corruption, the rise of Thatcherism, political sleaze, and specific events like the 1984 Miners' Strike.
Starring Christopher Eccleston, Mark Strong, Gina McKee, Daniel Craig, Peter Vaughan, David Bradley, Freda Dowie, Alun Armstrong, Malcolm McDowell, Geoffrey Hutchings