Episodes
Episode 1
Seven-year-old Jess lives with her dominating mother until she is rudely removed from her peculiar Pentecostal home and sent to school.
Episode 2
Jess, now 16, meets Melanie and falls in love. The pastor, the congregation and Jess's mother begin to suspect, culminating in a devastating denouement in front of a packed congregation. Pastor Finch demands that they renounce their passion for each other and turn their backs on Satan.
Episode 3
Jess, one year older and seemingly rehabilitated, returns to grace, taking Pastor Finch's sermon at the Blackpool Beach Mission. She meets Katy who replaces Melanie in her affections when it becomes obvious that Melanie has put the past behind her. Her one true friend Elsie is ailing and Cissy Fields, the local undertaker, takes her in when Mother and flock disown her, finally deciding that she is lost. But Jess dreams of books and Oxford.
Cast
Charlotte Coleman
Jess
Geraldine McEwan
Mother
Emily Aston
Small Jess
Kenneth Cranham
Pastor Finch
Elizabeth Spriggs
May
Cathryn Bradshaw
Melanie
Celia Imrie
Miss Jewsbury
Freda Dowie
Mrs Green
Barbara Hicks
Cissy
David Thewlis
Doctor
Crew
Jeanette Winterson
Novel
Beeban Kidron
Director
Jeanette Winterson
Writer
Phillippa Giles
Producer
Rachel Portman
Music
John Strickland
Editor
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