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.
Episode 1
Queenie is left shell-shocked when her long-term boyfriend Tom tells her they need a break.
Episode 2
Queenie puts on a brave face as she moves into her new house share, but when realisation dawns that Tom isn't coming back any time soon, she takes steps to numb her loneliness.
Episode 3
Queenie's in peak fun mode, using men as a distraction from her heartbreak. But when the fun stops being so... fun, Queenie's demons begin to catch up with her.
Episode 4
Queenie is forced to spend Christmas with her mum, which triggers feelings she's been trying to suppress, and her escape to the office only leads Queenie further down her path of self-sabotage.
Episode 5
A long line of rejection and betrayal brings Queenie to breaking point as the past catches up with her.
Episode 6
Queenie goes to therapy, as the true extent of her childhood trauma becomes clear.
Episode 7
It's Queenie's birthday. As she starts to recognise the progress she's making, she wonders if some hurdles with her mum are just too big to overcome.
Episode 8
Queenie makes steps towards healing in a new flat of her own, but she still faces some difficult decisions about her future - and who she wants in it.
