Detective Hannah Laing becomes deeply conflicted when she discovers her son is playing a crucial role as an undercover informant in a brutal murder investigation.
It's the kind of bewilderingly complicated detective drama we've become used to, the sort where you can't quite recall who's doing what to whom, or why, but we still feel for the various complicated characters living their complicated lives.
Rather like Laing herself, Before We Die is far from straightforward, with several roads leading to Croatia, and back to the war in the former Yugoslavia.
Before We Die is based on a Swedish series of the same name. It figures: viewing it felt exactly like watching something where all the important things had been lost in translation.
