About the Show

The fictional story is based on Andrea Levy’s award-winning novel about the end of slavery in Jamaica and follows July (Tamara Lawrance, King Charles III), an indomitable, young enslaved woman who works on a sugarcane plantation with her detestable mistress, Caroline Mortimer (Hayley Atwell, Howards End, The Avengers). Their lives change with the arrival of a charming new overseer, Robert Goodwin (Jack Lowden, Dunkirk) who sets out to improve the plantation for both the enslaved workers and the mistress.

This riveting three-part TV miniseries was a Peabody Awards nominee in 2022.  “A beautiful, moving, horrifying adaptation of Levy’s unsimple tale,” says The Guardian (UK)