The Woman in the Wall is the upcoming gothic BBC series that is set to shed light on Ireland’s most horrific institution, the Magdalene Laundries.
Viewers will see Luther actress Ruth Wilson take on the lead role of Lorna Brady, whose life continues to spiral after her incarceration at fifteen in Ireland and the Catholic Church’s scandalous Magdalene Laundries, where “fallen women” were sent to answer for their “sins” such as adultery and teenage pregnancy.
BBC’s official synopsis explains: “The convent was home to one of Ireland’s infamous Magdalene Laundries,” adding it was “a place where women were taken when they fell afoul of the social mores of their times.”
“Very few women were able to go on and lead relatively normal lives, and others, such as Lorna, were even less fortunate in their fate. One thing all survivors had in common is that none of them would ever forget,” it’s said.
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Lorna, who has suffered from sleepwalking since her time experiencing the horrors of the institution, wakes up one morning to find a woman’s corpse at her home in the small, fictional Irish town of Kilkinure without any recollection of how it got there.
That’s when Detective Colman Akande (played by Peaky Blinders‘ Daryl McCormack) comes along to investigate Lorna for a crime that appears to be unrelated to the dead woman in her home. However, he also harbours a few dark secrets of his own…
Dubbing the series “distinct, stirring and revelatory”, BBC has also teased that the show will be a mix of dark humour and psychological horror.
Most importantly, the show will highlight the brutalities of the Magdalene Laundries, which operated in Ireland for more than 200 years, with the last one officially closing as recently as 1996.
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