Dark mystery of the lady in the lake
NEW six-part series. Detective Robin Griffin is back in Sydney, searching for the daughter she gave up for adoption 17 years ago.
When the body of a young woman washes up on Bondi beach, Robin is caught up in a case which will lead closer to home than she could ever have expected.
Detective Robin Griffin (Elisabeth Moss) arrives back in Sydney after four years in New Zealand, unwilling to talk about the past, and eager to throw herself into her work.
When a suitcase containing the body of a young woman washes up on Bondi beach, Robin and her new partner Miranda Hilmarson (Gwendoline Christie) embark on an investigation which will lead them into the seedy underbelly of Sydney’s sex industry, with reverberations they could never have imagined.
At first there appears little hope of finding the killer, until Robin discovers that “China Girl” didn’t die alone.
Robin looks to the investigation to restore herself, but her problems are personal. Haunted by a daughter gave up for adoption at birth, Robin desperately wants to find her, yet dreads revealing the truth of her conception.
Now 17, troubled Mary (Alice Englert) is at odds with her adoptive parents Julia (Nicole Kidman) and Pyke (Ewan Leslie), and deeply in thrall to her much older boyfriend, the enigmatic Puss (David Dencik) – a dangerous provocateur and philosopher with links to a brothel where a young sex worker has disappeared...
Robin’s search to discover China Girl’s identity will take her into the city’s darkest recesses – and closer than she could have imagined to the secrets of her own heart.
The combination of a new location and the dynamics of her relationships in this new story push Robin into new terrain, as she follows unexpected leads and digs deeper within herself to solve this new, darkly disturbing case and uncover the identity of China Girl.
Her assigned police partner Miranda is an unwanted and yet unexpectedly forceful catalyst in pushing Robin to face her darkest demons, while the connection with her daughter Mary is wrought with complexities, as her boyfriend Puss has disturbing connections to the ‘China Girl’ mystery.
Mary’s adoptive parents Julia and Pyke bring their own human dramas into Robin’s world, as she maps a road through a much longed-for connection with her daughter.