Small island Season 1. Season 1.

Streaming video - 2009

Naomie Harris stars as Hortense, a young ambitious Jamaican woman thrust into the grit of 1940s post-war London. The streets are paved with rubble, not gold. Instead of the land of opportunity, she had dreamed of, Hortense and her husband are met with poverty, prejudice and abuse. Except for Queenie Bligh. No stranger to disappointment herself, she offers them friendship, and desires in return a break from her own monotonous existence. As they come together, crushed by their own disappointment, they find that their lives are far more entwined than they ever could have imagined.