To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows that far from dying of gastroenteritis his wife was slowly poisoned by her husband - information she is happy to use to improve her position in the household and to make sure she stays close to Stephen. As his own prospects improve with a business partnership and a romance more of his own class, Stephen decides that Lily must go. Unfortunately for him, his first attempt gives her even more of a hold over him.
Migrant Nina takes a hotel job in the Maldives, but her island paradise turns nightmarish after an incident. Falsely accused, she must evade traps to escape her unjust life sentence.
Ji-yeon and Do-jin are exhausted from years of IVF treatment. They don't remember what life was like before. She continues to experience the pain of separation from a child she has never met. Do-jin is worried about her health and wants h