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This captivating and wholly absorbing six-episode mini-series is co-created by British screenwriters Charlie Covell and Iain Weatherby. BAFTA-nominated, it features an extraordinary cast that includes Scottish actor Lindsay Duncan, Wales’s Karl Johnson and UK actors Sandra James-Young, Fiona Button, Phil Davis, Peter Egan and Sue Johnston. Co-produced by London-based Clerkenwell Films and Channel 4 Television.

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Reunited at a funeral, a group of older friends make a drunken pact to help each other end their suffering in dignity should they ever become seriously ill. But what starts off as a theoretical whim soon becomes an impossibly stark reality.