From multi award-winning playwright Mike Bartlett, creator of smash hit Doctor Foster, this tense psychological thriller centres on two fathers, Jon (Adrian Lester) and Dan (John Simm), whose very different lives collide when Dan’s teenage son is stabbed and tragically dies while under the care of trauma consultant Jon. Devastated, heartbroken and pushed to the edge, Dan, a father struggling to make ends meet, believes Jon is responsible for his son’s death. As Dan strives for justice, he begins to unpick the fabric of Jon’s distinctly contrasting life as a high-achieving surgeon with a beautiful home and family, all while his own life unravels in the wake of his son’s killing. Intricate and compelling, Trauma questions what makes a man good and explores what happens when the very institutions established to protect us, and those who represent them, let us down.

Client: Tall Story Pictures

Broadcaster: ITV

Writer: Mike Bartlett

Starring: Adrian Lester, John Simm

Photographers: Alex Bailey and Joss Barratt