[3] Starring Keeley Hawes as DCI Caroline Goode the drama was commissioned by ITV,[4] directed by Richard Laxton and produced by Hera Pictures in association with Buddy Club Productions.

[5] Rahmat Suleimani reports his 20-year-old girlfriend, Banaz Mahmod, as a missing person; newly promoted DCI, Caroline Goode, heads Team 16 of the London Metropolitan Police Homicide and Serious Crime Command in the ensuing search.

DC Sarah Raymond discovers that Banaz has an elder sister, Bekhal, who is estranged from the Mahmod family, she ran away from home to avoid a forced marriage and to escape the threats and violence she endured when she rebelled.

He is arrested and while in custody his telephone calls are recorded; Nawzad Gelly translates the content and informs DCI Goode that Hama is openly boasting about how Banaz was raped, killed and her body disposed of.

The focus shifts to finding Banaz's remains which, based on car tracking, phone data and information gleaned from Hama's recorded conversations, are found buried in a suitcase in a Birmingham suburb.

The circumstantial evidence mounts and Hama, despite being warned, continues to talk openly and further implicate his co-conspirators via recorded phone calls; ultimately he concedes his involvement and pleads guilty to a murder charge.

Further, "Writer Gwyneth Hughes does a fine job of telling the story of the search for Banaz with tension and pace – it's a stripped-down, purely procedural narrative with Goode and her team joining the dots";[13] "this was a very well staged drama and very well played.