Just how dark can quaint village life become? 

Set in north-west England and the perimeters of The Irish Sea, a malfunctioning community unknowingly locks itself into Purgatory.

 

When local folk receive ethereal signatures of their demise, the response is denial. Contentions are left to fester and the wronged seek redress. Cross-border criminals interconnect, reaching the distant breakaway state of Transnistria.

The pandemic precipitates few changes in Jay's life other than by chance appointment with Shameem; a young lady cast in a very different mould, but on the same wavelength.