Bouquet of Barbed Wire [2010]

TREVOR EVE (Waking the Dead) stars alongside HERMIONE NORRIS (Spooks) in this modern reworking of Andrea Newman's taboo-busting psychological drama by the acclaimed writer of Prime Suspect. Bouquet of Barbed Wire explores the consequences of a father's obsessive love for his daughter and how secrets once buried in the past return to haunt their lives. Trevor Eve plays wealthy architect Peter Manson whose apparently successful life is turned upside down when his beloved teenage daughter Prue reveals she is pregnant by her former English teacher the arrogant Gavin Sorenson. The very heart of the family is threatened as Peter has an intuitive sense that Gavin is on a personal quest for revenge. Peter employs twenty-something Sarah Francis and he and his wife Cassie's relationship becomes increasingly distant as Peter tries to overcome the aching fear that he has lost his daughter. With his marriage at breaking point his increased erratic behaviour and now facing financial ruin it's only a matter of time before the truth about his secret past is revealed...