Heart of the Country

Episode 1

Why Wasn't I Told?

Natalie Harris has a comfortable life in the country. She has a big house, a businessman husband and children who attend a private school. Little does she realize what's to come when she takes her kids to school in the car one wet morning. For when she accidentally splashes Sonia, a single mother with children living in a council house, Sonia in return curses Natalie under her breath. But whether intentional or otherwise, after that Natalie's world comes crashing down as she discovers that her husband hasn't turned up for work today. Indeed, he seems to of also emptied the company bank accounts and run off with a former local beauty queen, leaving Natalie in a very fine mess indeed.