Eight-part ITV period drama set in the Yorkshire shanty town of Jericho. The series follows penniless widow Annie Quaintain (Jessica Raine) as she moves with her two children Martha and George (Amy James-Kelly and Samuel Bottomley) to find work in Jericho. She opens a boarding house, which attracts the railway workers who are building the nearby Culverdale Viaduct, and befriends navvy Johnny Jackson (Hans Matheson). But her attempts at building a new life for herself run into problems as the secrets of the town's inhabitants begin to unravel.