The Virtues is one of Channel 4's most awaited dramas, created by This is England writer Shane Meadows.
Starring Liverpool actor Stephen Graham the show centers on recovering alcoholic Joe who is desperately trying to remember his past.
Joe's ex-partner moves from Liverpool to Australia to start a new life with their son, sending his life into a spiral.
So Joe sets off for Ireland to reunite with his sister and hopefully confront his past.
In the process Joe meets Craigy - a strange man who won't leave him alone.
And Joe also gets tangled up with Anna's husband's sister Dinah - who also has skeletons in her closet.
Is it a true story?
Shane Meadows, 46, revealed the drama is based on his repressed childhood memories of sexual abuse.
Aged nine he was sexually assaulted by an older child.
At the premiere of the Virtues, Meadows revealed: "I’d been through something in my childhood that I didn’t realise had happened until I got to about 40.
"And I got to the bottom of this thing that had happened in my life as a kid, and I had fragmented memories. The very basis, the acorn of Joseph's journey, was borne out of something that happened to me as a kid.”
Meadows went on to explain that instead of confronting “the people that had done it”, he channelled his emotions into creating The Virtues.
He said: “Fundamentally, when I discovered this thing, I went into a place of trying to track down the people that had done it… I was just about to track down this guy I wanted to find, to confront him, basically.
"But I knew if I confronted him, if at any stage in that conversation he smirked at me, I was probably going to jump over the table and bite something off his face.
"I decided to ring Jack and talk about making something instead."
