A reclusive, disillusioned Army veteran is prompted into action when his only friend goes missing on a down-at-heel council estate.

One-time hard man Frank Barron is barely recognisable now he’s been afflicted with Alzheimer’s, but when his estranged son Jamie visits him in hospital he realises the extra stress Frank…

A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.