Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in south London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. After a messy breakup with her long-term boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places and begins to realize she has to face the past head-on before she can rebuild.
As Queenie makes steps towards healing in a new flat of her own, she still has some difficult decisions to make about her future, and who she wants in it.
It's Queenie's birthday, and as she starts to recognise the progress she's making, she wonders if some hurdles with her mum are just too big to overcome.
Queenie goes to therapy, and we learn about the true extent of her childhood trauma.
A long line of rejection and betrayal bring Queenie to breaking point as the past catches up with her.
Queenie is forced to spend Christmas with her mum, triggering feelings she's been trying to hide and leading her further into self-sabotage.
Queenie's in peak fun mode, using men as a distraction from her heartbreak. But when the fun stops, her demons catch up with her.
Queenie puts on a brave face as she moves into her new house share, but when she realises that Tom isn't coming back, she tries to numb her loneliness.
Queenie is shell-shocked when her boyfriend Tom tells her they need a break.
Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in south London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. After a messy breakup with her long-term boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places and begins to realize she has to face the past head-on before she can rebuild.
Dionne Brown , Bellah , Samuel Adewunmi
Lisa Walters
Lionsgate Television , Further South Productions
as Queenie Jenkins
as Kyazike
