1851. Joseph Benson is employed by Henry Mayhew to interview London’s poor. A family man with mouths to feed, Joseph must coax testimony from prostitutes for Mayhew’s newspaper articles on the working classes. 160 years later, Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer and moves to Walworth. As her story unfolds, the two eras brush against each other and ghosts of the city's past erupt in the present.
