The Outlaws

Seven people from vastly different walks of life begin community payback sentences, cleaning up and renovating a derelict building in Bristol. They include Oxford-bound Rani, who is both an A* student and a kleptomaniac, and Christian, a young man in debt to the wrong people and doing everything he can to keep his kid sister Esme free of their clutches. As the group is shown the ropes by their supervisor, Diane, we also meet John, a white, middle-aged, middle-class business man forced to share oxygen with 'criminals' while he scrambles to save his family business, and black civil rights veteran Myrna, whose pursuit of direct action has put her at odds with a newer generation of activists. Rounding out the group, struggling lawyer and divorcé Greg has found himself on the wrong side of the justice system, and insta-celebutante Lady Gabriella Penrose-Howe, must learn to survive her sentence without a retinue of hangers-on. Meanwhile, Frank, a twinkly-eyed small-time crook, is moving back in with the daughter he abandoned decades earlier. Can any of them really reform?

A washed-up solicitor and an insta-celebutante with anger issues discover what they could possibly have in common.

Myrna questions what to do with her life when the organisation she founded, the Bristol Justice Collective, seemingly rejects her. This places her in closer conflict with John, who faces mounting pressure at work and at home. Rani runs into trouble with Christian, but despite that, a trip on a booze cruise deepens this budding connection. Gabby and Greg work on plans for her festival, even as Greg's colleague Spencer, another passenger on the same booze cruise, threatens to lead her astray. And as Christian's enemies engage in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, a decision is made about the mysterious bag of cash.

A lifelong scoundrel reflects on his past mistakes, the police recruit a surprising new deputy, and a young woman makes a decision which could endanger the lives of all of the outlaws.

The outlaws must hustle on two fronts: with a captain of industry and a member of the landed gentry. An audacious break-in is planned, and an imposter is heartbreakingly exposed.

Even with redemption seemingly in reach, the outlaws find their time running out, and the net closing around them. They face a stark choice - die apart, or survive together?