Estranged from her violent husband, mother of three Gina Dixon meets another single mother who appears to have no financial worries. Carol's secret is simple. She is a prostitute.

The hunt is on for Gina's killer, and the finger of suspicion points in several directions as her friends and family struggle to come to terms with the loss.

Gina's estranged husband Steve is still coming to terms with her death and former secret life, and he goes on the trail of Gina's friends in an attempt to understand what his wife was doing.

Tracy's former pimp, Dez, is released from prison and she brings him back to her house and sleeps with him. Rose discovers that her daughter is not in Manchester after all, but in Sheffield and, to Rose's horror, on the game...

Colette desparately tries to get tracy to realise what she has done but Tracy seems to be in another world. Colette has no choice but to tell Rose. There is a time bomb ticking and the climax to the series is both unexpected and shocking.