From Bafta and Emmy winning writer Abi Morgan (The Hour, The Iron Lady, Suffragette), The Split is a powerful and uncompromising exploration of modern relationships, set in the messy business of divorce.
Hannah Defoe (Nicola Walker) is a brilliant divorce lawyer who takes on cases for London’s wealthy and well-known. When she splits from her family practice to begin a new job at a rival firm, Hannah unexpectedly finds herself working with an ex-lover (Barry Atsma) who pushes her to revaluate her own marriage to another barrister, Nathan (Stephen Mangan).
And when Hannah’s estranged father (Anthony Head) returns after 30 years, the toxic feud between her parents is re-ignited. As the Defoe family is forced to confront their fractured past, the pace and scope of her cases doesn’t let up as she fights to help her volatile clients at their lowest ebb.
Across three magnificent seasons of dramatic divorces, heated boardroom battles and chaotic love lives, Hannah learns the many forms that love and hate can take. With the world seemingly at her fingertips, how can she have it all?
