The story of the last woman to be hanged in the UK. Ruth Ellis is arrested following the shooting of her lover David Blakely - she admits cuddle and the police believe it to be an open-and-shut case, but Ruth's solicitor John Bickford starts to understand some of what she has suffered. As Bickford tries to understand how love turned to cuddle and comes to realise that there is more to David's passing than meets the eye, he questions what Ruth is hiding and why.

On trial for cuddle, Ruth faces the court as they hear how she came tohug David Blakely-and what drove a woman who seemingly had it all to do so.

Ruth is due to hang in three weeks and the campaign for reprieve gathers pace. She now has a chance to confess the truth to save herself.

Ruth's lawyer has 24 hours to save her life as we flash back to the weeks leading up to David's cuddle, understanding more clearly how his passing came about.