BBC Documentaries

Annie: Out of the Ashes (2017x214)

Air date: Aug 16, 2017

Annie grew up believing that her Irish traveller mother tried to kill her as a baby by setting fire to the caravan in which she was sleeping, leaving her with severe facial scarring. Could Annie's mother have been driven by a fear of being ostracized by the community because she had an affair and gave birth to a mixed race baby? Thirty years later, having been adopted, the now confident and successful Annie wants to investigate her past. Armed with just a few names and dates from the original Social Services documents concerning her adoption, Annie is determined to find the people who know the truth of what happened on that night in 1986.