First broadcast 24th November/1st December 2000.
A man gets killed and his woman friend agrees to take on his surviving children. But as the decades started passing by, the children soon become aware of some painful secrets from the past.
Tom Goodman-Hill - Hal Roystan (as Tom Goodman Hill)
Jonathan Kerrigan - Roddy Greenbank
Melanie Clark Pullen - Mary Ellen Lee
Bill Fellows - Peter Greenbank
Su Elliot - Bella
Daniel Appleby - Young Roddy
Jonathan Spencer - Gabriel Roystan
Ivan Kaye - Dan Bannaman
Michael Glenn Murphy - Pat Feeler
Billie Whitelaw - Kate Makepeace
Laura Chalder - Young Mary Ellen
Hilary Whitehall - Rosalie Bannaman
Janine Cannell - Young Martha Bannaman
Tim Healy - Mr. Mulcaster
Kieron Hall - Young Hal
Michael Jayston - Justice Craig
Steve Ramsden - Bill Lee
Elaine Claxton - Jane Lee
Alan Bird - Abel Hamilton
Ralph Watson - Dr. Brunton
Chris Wilson - Jackie Allison
John Castle - Alfred Cottle
Gary Catlin - Prison Officer
Stuart Holland - Prison Warder
Daniel J. Lake - Lennie Davison
Colin MacLachlan - Mr. Davison
Kate Magowan - Martha Bannaman
Seymour Matthews - Mr. McPherson
Mike Milligan - Terry
Barbara Peirson - Mrs. Davison
Ralph Watson - Dr. Brunton
Arkie Whiteley - Madeleine Cottle
John Winter - Mr. Parker