Jane Cavendish - Gugu Mbatha-Raw
A financial PR exec, Jane is smart, curious, dogged, disciplined, and a natural perfectionist. Shellshocked by trauma, she’s hit with the destruction of her entire worldview: the belief she’d always had that if she worked hard and conscientiously, her life would be a good one. For Jane, One Folgate Street’s austere spaces represent calm, stillness and repose – a retreat from the maelstrom of her recent emotions, and the discipline required to live there chimes with her own work ethic and high standards - until the mystery of what happened to Emma begins to consume her, an outlet for all that hidden grief and anger bubbling under the surface.
Edward Monkford - David Oyelowo
A supremely self-confident and successful architect, Edward is so obsessively perfectionist that the slightest flaw in his surroundings causes him almost physical pain. His grief has manifested itself into the extreme minimalism present in his architecture and every other aspect of his life. Edward is completely ambiguous - is he dangerous, or merely damaged? A victim, or a killer? Whatever the truth, he’s a tragic figure doomed to repeat the same cycle of behaviour over and over again, unable to move on from his past.
