"Marchlands" is an ITV drama about three separate families who live in the same house called Marchlands during three different time periods - 1968, 1987 and 2010. All the families are linked by the ghost of a girl called Alice (Millie Archer) who drowned in a nearby lake in 1967. In each episode, the action shifts between the three periods and a number of characters appear in more than one time frame. In 1968, Ruth (Jodie Whittaker) and her husband Paul (Jamie Thomas King) live at Marchlands with Paul's parents Robert (Denis Lawson) and Evelyn (Tessa Peake-Jones). Ruth is grieving for her eight-year-old daughter Alice, who died six months earlier. She wants to discover the truth of what happened to her daughter, but Paul just wants to move on. In the same house in 1987, Helen (Alex Kingston) and Eddie (Dean Andrews) are increasingly worried about their daughter Amy (Sydney Wade), who has an imaginary friend called Alice. At the property in 2010, Nisha (Shelley Conn) is stripping a wall in a bedroom when she discovers a photograph of a young girl behind a skirting board. It is a picture of Alice. Later that day, she spots her partner Mark (Elliot Cowan) signing with Olive Runcie (Elizabeth Rider) and suspects he is not being entirely truthful about why he wanted to return to the village where he once lived. The five-part series premiered in early 2011.