From There to Here

- Season 1

(2015)

June 1996: Mancunian Daniel Cotton is married to Clare with two grown up children Louise and Charlie and manages a sweet factory with his gruff, adoptive father Samuel. Samuel is estranged from and dismissive of Daniel's half brother Robbo, who runs a night club but the entire family is obsessed with football so Daniel attempts a reconciliation with all of them watching a televised Euro 96 match at a local pub. A terrorist bomb destroys the pub but all three survive, along with Joanne the pub cleaner, a single mother with two small boys and Daniel takes her home. They...

A year has passed. Daniel is having an affair with Joanne, who gives birth to their child though both she and Claire are unaware of his duplicity. He is about to tell them both the truth but backs out, instead confiding in Robbie, whom he helps out when the police are suspicious about the bomb in his club. Joanne's elder son Robbie, however, mistrusts him. Samuel is pleased when the enterprising Charlie goes into property development, accusing Daniel of being jealous of his son whilst Louise is successfully elected as an MP. Ryan and his brother Lee confront Daniel ...

Daniel has to face the wrath of both women in his life though Samuel, whilst berating Robbo for keeping the secret, is oddly sympathetic and Daniel moves in with him. Two years later thy bring Scarlett, Daniel's daughter by Joanne, for a family Christmas but it is a strained affair as Charlie tells Louise he knows she is two-timing her husband and Claire announces that she has a new boyfriend. Some months later Daniel learns that Samuel is his actual birth father as well as finding that Joanne's son Ryan's drug-dealing, coupled with a blackmailing employee, threatens ...