The series continues the story of the show's pilot episode, as protagonist Molly Dawes (Lacey Turner) navigates becoming a soldier at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan.

[2] BBC One controller Charlotte Moore teased the new series: "Our Girl is a rite-of-passage story about a young soldier beautifully captured by Lacey Turner.

In the same year when our British troops withdraw from Afghanistan, the series will follow the extreme life-changing experiences she is forced to face both on tour and when she returns back home".

[5] He mentioned that the British Army don't face such problems as real life as they make walls out of rock and gravel, while those on set were constructed using straw.

[3] Grounds teased that the series would showcase "how the deployment really makes [Molly] grow up", as despite being awestruck by Afghanistan's beauty, she would be changed forever by the experience.

[3] Turner added that her character "changed quite a lot really from the beginning", having grown up, finished her training and emotionally matured, while retaining traits of "disobedience", "feistiness", "fight", and "passion".

Aldridge described his character as "an interesting mix of authority and fun" with a "laissez-faire attitude" and is "happy in the presence of his lads", but takes his role "very seriously".