Marty receives his final warning for being late from his company boss, Mike and he knows the pressure is on. Following another heavy night of drinking though it leads to him sleeping through his alarm and he is concerned that his number is up. Marty calls work and, in a panicked effort to save his job, he lies that his wife, Katrina, has tragically died.

Tracy Shawcross works as JS Motors' receptionist and she wishes for a luxurious lifestyle of designer clothes and glamour, She is determined to find a way out of her mundane life and thinks that she has found the answer after she starts a relationship with a local DJ called Jimmy.

Determined to make everyone's business her own, Kathy sees herself as the self-proclaimed moral compass of the office. Her perfect life belies a much deeper frustration though as after having suffered years of a sexless marriage she spends months meticulously planning to meet a secret cyber suitor. The meeting ends up having some life-shattering consequences though after she finds herself witness to a brutal and shocking crime.

Rick is reluctant to give up his fun-loving lifestyle and still works as a part-time DJ and is always the life and soul of the party. He is secretly trapped in an unhappy marriage though which has reached breaking point. He becomes homeless and sleeps in a van in the showroom car park. After Mike founds out, he offers to put him a place to stay for a few nights and get him back on track.

Pete and his wife Vannessa learn that they are expecting a baby and it looks like luck is finally on their side. Pete is feeling the pressure financially though. After he and colleague Fat Jason are involved in a unhappy car robbery during a test drive, things begin to spiral out of control. The police believe that the robbery was an inside job and attention soon turns to Fat Jason whose increasingly suspicious behaviour causes major concern.

It has been sixteen months since Beth Corbin's husband Dave disappeared and as she feels ready to move on with life she is left feeling shocked by some unexpected news. She leaves her girls with her mother-in-law Gina and travels to Margate to face her past.