Traffik - Season 1 (1989)

Jack Lithgow is a British government minister who travels to Pakistan to discuss a new aid agreement aimed at reducing opium production in the country which farmers cultivate it and local organized crime figures harness it for heroin production for worldwide distribution. Jack also encounters Fazal, a local poppy farmer in the North-West Frontier provinces who grows opium poppies since the local drug traffickers give him huge amounts of cash for the sale of the crop. But when the Pakistani Army arrives to destroy the fields, Fazal finds himself out of work. Meanwhile ...

After returning to England from his visit to Pakistan, Jack becomes distracted from his work to stop the drug flow from the Middle East by a family crisis involving his 17-year-old daughter, Caroline, who becomes addicted to heroin after carousing with her outgoing school mates all of whom are addicts to the same drugs that come from the country Jack is trying to prevent it from coming from. Meanwhile in Hamburg, Helen struggles to stabilizes her family's finances and safeguard her two young daughters as her financial situation worsens and Karl is officially charged ...

Helen's desperation grows as she wades deeper into her imprisoned husband's world of drug trafficking despite constant police surveillance of her house and realizes that she, out of blind loyalty to her husband, will not only have to take over his drug smuggling business to support her expensive and lavish lifestyle, but also use his contacts to try to get him released. In London, Jack's continuing trouble with Caroline causes his marriage to disintegrate as his daughter refuses to go into rehab which leads to her running away from home, and his wife emotionally ...