In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.
Pauline Collins
Derrick O'Connor
Yee San Foo
Peggy Aitchison
Dominic Tang
Geoffrey Edwards
David Webb
Eric Mason
Roy Pattison
Howard Lew Lewis
Terry Gurry
Ray Jeffries
Martin Oldfield
Laurence Harrington
Hugh Evans
T.R. Bowen
Kathleen Michael
Natasha King
Ryan Freedman
Peter John
Sally Lahee
Graham Lines
Diana Rayworth
John Fowler
Martin Heller
John Michael McCarthy
Bill Rourke
David Voss
Stanley McGeagh
Paddy Joyce
Hilary Sesta
Leslie Grantham
Steven Whinnery
Brian Coburn
David Shawyer
Roger Heathcott
Michael Worsley
Sid Thomas
Bill Armour
Iain McColl
Roy Boutcher
Phil Rowlands
Derek Ware
Martin Phillips
Maurice Bush
Tony Rohr
John Rowe
Richard Avery
David Landberg
Mike Savage
Kevin White
Arnold Peters
Kay Gallie
Michelle Mulvany
Timothy Jessel
Victoria Williams
Clare Ruane