Realising she would be homeless and destitute over the Christmas period, Christine prearranges her sale at a charity auction to another student, upsetting his mother and his girlfriend.
“You wanna protect her? You take her. I’ve put up with her shit for long enough. I’ll sell her to you... cheap! You take her... for maybe a hundred quid?” I bought the young wheelchair-bound girl to save her from another beating.
Two people wait for the cancelled ferry, one a man with a car towing a caravan, the other a girl on foot looking for solitude to get over a traumatic experience. The man offers the girl a bed for the night with ‘no strings attached’.
Forced to become an apprentice electrician, Nicola gradually becomes enamoured with her mentor and reacts violently when her erstwhile office boss tries to muscle in on him.
Katherine, an accountant, is convicted of Culpable Manslaughter and sentenced to a full body whipping and two years slavery. Because of her body’s increased response to pain she fell unconscious after the first strokes and slave dealers shied away from buying her but a family needed an accountant.
When Jenny’s drunk boyfriend vomits and messes himself in their tent on a camping site after a binge drinking session, the man occupying a caravan on the neighbouring plot, helps her out.
Totally deaf, Leonie didn’t understand her woodwork teacher’s instructions until he put her into the care of Ian, the class craftsman. Her father thwarted their newfound love.
