The story of three of the children who were victims in the 2012 grooming and sex trafficking case in Rochdale, for which nine men were convicted and sentenced. The drama explores how these girls were groomed, how they were ignored by the authorities directly responsible for protecting them, and how they eventually made themselves heard.

Maxine Peake, Lesley Sharp, Lisa Riley, Ace Bhatti, Paul Kaye, Jill Halfpenny, Ria Zmitrowicz, Molly Windsor, Liv Hill, Peter Singh, Rupert Procter, Jason Hughes, Katherine Pearce, Antonio Aakeel, Pearce Quigley, Kerrie Hayes, Naomi Radcliffe, Ross Anderson, Ellie Lightfoot, Jackie Clune, Mark Beswick, Adam Karim, Brian Fletcher, Bo Bragason, Wasim Zakir, Simon Nagra, Adrian Harris, Haider Mohammed Javed, Zee Sulleyman, Satnam Bhogal, Tebraiz Shahzad, Maggie Service, Amanda Hale, Matthew Heathcote, Jonas Khan, Perveen Hussain, Katy Carmichael, Steffan Rhodri, Nick Moss, Qas Hamid, Jamie Ballard, Robert Gwilym, Deka Walmsley, Vineeta Rishi, Mark Carter, Jay Sajjid, Gurjeet Singh, Waleed Akhtar, Salman Akhtar, Paul Hickey, Simon Cook, Hannah Lee, Vincenzo Pellegrino, Philip Hill-Pearson, Marc Danbury, Jessica Fostekew, Ezra Faroque Khan, Tristan Sturrock, Tom Prior, Marc Geoffrey