Death and Nightingales
Created by Allan Cubitt
On BBC Two
A tense, claustrophobic period drama about a young woman's escape from an abusive household, where buried secrets and moral ambiguity complicate her flight.
Fermanagh, Irish countryside, 1885. On her 23rd birthday, Beth, who lives on a remote farm with Billy Winters, her tyrannical stepfather, whom she can barely stand, prepares to flee from such a suffocating life with the help of the seductive Liam Ward, without being aware that her decision will unearth deeply buried secrets a long time ago.
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