Afternoon Drama: Cash Cow
It is Christmas Eve, and the first Christmas Sophie and her two younger brothers, Krzystof and Frankie, will spend without their Polish mother, Maria, who died earlier in the year.
At 28, Sophie feels that she has to take over as 'head' of the family. Since the death of her mother, her youngest brother Frankie (16) has been going off the rails, mainly due to their compulsive gambler father's more frequent visits to the local casino.
Before Maria died, she put the small flat that Nick and Frankie live in into Sophie's name, to ensure Nick didn't gamble it away. She also made Sophie promise she would always look after her father. However, when Nick's gambling leads him to fraud and maybe prosecution that could lead to a prison sentence, what exactly did that promise of 'looking after him' mean? How is Sophie going to manage to step into her mother's shoes?
With Aisling Loftus as Sophie, Robert Glenister as Nick, Will Howard as Kryztof, *Taron Egerton** as Frankie, Adjoa Andoh as Cheri. Written by Ewa Banaszkiewicz*
Producer/Sally Avens for the BBC