Marchlands - Season 1 (2011)

In 1968 Ruth and Paul Bowen mourn the death by drowning of their eight year old daughter Alice in the Marchlands area around their rural house. Ruth believes Paul blames her and is distant from her but both of them ally against his mother Evelyn,when she suggests that Alice's bedroom be turned into a sewing room. Nineteen years later Helen and Eddie Maynard now live in the house and are troubled when their little girl Amy tells them that a ghost called Alice is her imaginary friend,the more so when Amy's pet cat is killed,supposedly by Alice. In 2010 expectant Nisha ...

Evelyn persuades Paul and a reluctant Ruth to seek help from a priest,Father Boyle,but his main argument,that the couple should try for another child,does not comfort Ruth. Seeing Alice's crucifix on her headstone prompts Ruth to ask for a police investigation but again she gets no satisfaction. Helen and Eddie take Amy to see a psychiatrist,on whose advice they read up on mental disorders but to Amy Alice is only too real,complete with hand prints,and Amy becomes annoyed with her 'friend' for getting her into trouble. Laid up with a broken leg Nisha discovers ...

In 1968 Ruth and Paul are told that his low sperm count makes it unlikely they will have other children. Upset,Ruth leaves the village and meets some students,with whom she gets stoned at a party though she turns down the offer of sex with a lad called Brian. Eddie becomes more and more convinced as he talks to Amy that Alice is indeed a ghost and not an imaginary friend,locating news of her death in the local library archive. In 2010 Nisha gives birth to a daughter,whom she names Alice. Ruth stays on to help and hears evidence of a poltergeist. Scott tells Nisha that...