A group of women friends from South East London maintain their friendships through ups and downs. It is not until Cara's husband Dave indecently exposes himself to Evelyn that things start to crumble. Rhiannon's boyfriend Joe Lucas is a gangster who decides to take matters into his own hands and deal with Dave personally. When she sees what he has done she reports him. Afterwards she fears for her safety and returns to Wales. She doesn't understand that Joe's reach is very long and he already has her in his sights.

Things couldn't be much worse for Joe Lucas. He was on remand for the attempted murder of Dave Thorpe, and now he'd heard that his victim had recovered, and was in hiding waiting to testify against him at trial. His ex-girlfriend Rhiannon had been a witness to what he'd done, and she had been the one to start the ball rolling by reporting him. Now she too had gone on the missing list. To top it all his dad Gordon had told him that he was relieving him of responsibility for the firm, and if he had not involved Tony in his murderous schemes, then he would have been left to rot in prison It...