The Woman in the Wall

BBC One psychological thriller The Woman in the Wall won three prestigious prizes at the RTS Northern Ireland Television Awards in November, with Ruth Wilson and Daryl McCormack picking up the Best Actor awards, and David Holmes and Brian Irvine triumphing in the Original Music Score category.

Writer Joe Murtagh’s six-part gothic drama, made by Motive Pictures, tells the story of lives ruined by Ireland’s Catholic church workhouses, the Magdalene Laundries.

The series will explore the legacy of one of Ireland’s most shocking and dark scandals, the barbaric institutions known as ‘The Magdalene Laundries’.

Lorna Brady (Ruth Wilson) lives in the fictional town of Kilkinure and awakens one day to find a dead woman in her house.  

With no memory of what has occurred, Brady doesn't know who the dead woman is and if she could be responsible for her death. 

Brady has suffered with extreme sleepwalking caused by the trauma of her time being incarcerated in Kilkinure Convent when she was 15.