On the South Island of New Zealand, twelve-year-old Tui Mitcham is rescued from the freezing waters of a remote mountaintop lake, which she had walked into in an apparent attempt to take her own life. Her teacher notices that she is pregnant and with the small local police force ill-equipped to question her, social services enlist the help of child protection expert Detective Robin Griffin to talk to the girl and uncover the truth. Robin has only just returned to Queenstown from Sydney, Australia, to visit her dying mother but agrees to help. Slowly, she forges a connection with Tui and learns more about her and her family, but the young girl refuses to reveal the father of her unborn child. Meanwhile, Tui's father Matt is bemused to find a small ad hoc village is created out of container crates on a plot of land known locally as Paradise, land which he believes he owns but has seemingly been sold by local estate agent Bob Platt. Populated by women of a certain age, veterans of love and rejection, the project is financed by rich divorcee Bunny but they are led by GJ, a silver-haired Svengali who administers a bracing form of kindness. Furious and seeking revenge, Matt sends his sons to question Platt, who has betrayed him with the sale. As Robin continues to investigate Tui's case and learns more about the small town of Laketop, her world starts to unravel, uncovering difficult secrets from her past. BBC ; writer/director, Jane Campion. Starring: Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan, David Wenham, Elisabeth Moss, Cohen Holloway.

Early afternoon, Bunny slaps a hundred dollar bill down on the bar of the pub in Laketop and offers it to the first man who agrees to have sex with her. Bunny wants sex but on her guru GJ's orders is limiting her exposure to men to seven minutes in a bid to reduce the risk of emotional entanglement. Robin briefs the officers assigned to the investigation into the disappearance of Tui Mitcham. Against a hostile atmosphere of know-it-all bravado, she lays out the list of possible suspects: family members, the Mitchams, and a local barman with a paedophile record, Wolfgang Zanic. Later at a coffee bar Al Parker opens up and tells Robin he is impressed and moved by the passion she shows for the investigation and agrees to give her two helicopters for an aerial search of the bush. BBC ; writer/director, Jane Campion. Starring: Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan, David Wenham, Elisabeth Moss, Cohen Holloway.

Robin is back on the case, whilst Matt gathers troops to hunt his daughter down. Tui's friends trek deep into the mountains to celebrate her birthday, with tragic consequences. BBC ; writer/director, Jane Campion. Starring: Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan, David Wenham, Elisabeth Moss, Cohen Holloway.

Matt reveals a secret that almost destroys Robin as the investigation reaches its shocking conclusion. BBC ; writer/director, Jane Campion. Starring: Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan, David Wenham, Elisabeth Moss, Cohen Holloway.

A violent indiscretion sees Robin thrown off the case but she cannot let go. Her passionate affair with Johnno, Tui's half-brother, intensifies and complicates. BBC ; writer/director, Jane Campion. Starring: Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan, David Wenham, Elisabeth Moss, Cohen Holloway.

Robin makes a breakthrough in her investigation, but Al warns that her own dark past is colouring her judgement. BBC ; writer/director, Jane Campion. Starring: Holly Hunter, Peter Mullan, David Wenham, Elisabeth Moss, Cohen Holloway.