We first see Miriam bleeding from the hand, sheepishly explaining that she had to bash in the window of her locked car with a garden gnome on a visit to Beverley in Yorkshire. Her son, Oscar, had supposedly been spotted there, by the sort of crank who obsesses over the cases of missing persons, especially children. The disappearance of Madeleine McCann and the death of Nicola Bulley come irresistibly to mind, as we see trolls, charlatans and grifters swarm over the slow-moving police investigation.
The Unbelievers review: ‘A tour de force performance by Nicola Walker’
