The Secrets
2014 · Drama · 1 Season · 5 Episodes ·
Series of stand-alone dramas. Each story explores the links, pressures and expectations that draw people together and tear them apart.
E11. The DilemmaA story about love, mercy and the things people do to save the ones they love.
Pippa is a vet working in a practice based in north London. She is married to Shaun, a tree surgeon running his own outfit, and they are expecting their first child. She has been a vet for the best part of a decade and is beginning to struggle with the more complex ethical elements of her job, like putting down animals and the spiralling insurance and treatment costs that her patients regularly complain about. However, she shows remarkable grace when at work, treating all her patients with great care and attention.
Her widowed mother Angela is diagnosed with terminal cancer. She has expressed to her daughter that she is struggling to find the energy and the reserve to keep up the fight against her illness. Knowing that at her practice she has the capability to end a life mercifully, the daughter now has to make the biggest decision she has ever made - whether to help her mother end her life.E22. The ConversationSeries of stand-alone dramas. On the eve of her wedding, a bride finds her fiance was once accused of a shocking crime.E33. The VisitorSeries of stand-alone dramas. Dean lives an uneventful life until he is followed home from work by a girl.E44. The LieSeries of stand-alone dramas. Lexie's life is turned upside down when she discovers that her husband Philip is leading a double life.E55. The ReturnPoliceman Ray and his loving girlfriend Lorna are engaged to get married, but their relationship is suddenly jeopardised by the return of Ray's brother Anthony, who used to be with Lorna.
