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Storyline

Leanne Wellings (Christine Tremarco) prepares to visit her grandfather, who resides in a convalescent home.

She takes her two young children Rosie (Tyler Anthony) and Ethan (Lee Massey), and calls up the stairs to her eldest daughter, Tanya (Lucinda Dryzek), to join them.

Tanya makes an excuse to avoid going.

Leanne eventually leaves with Ethan and Rosie. Leanne rushes to collect a dog from the shelter before it closes.

She then drives to her grandfather, new dog in tow, but stops at a lay-by to buy him some flowers from a van.

A lorry draws up at the same time.

The children lose sight of their mother as they sit in the car. Leanne does not return and the bewildered children start to walk away from the car.

Leanne’s husband Matt (David Oyelowo) works at a local gym. It is here that several of the characters connect with each other.

Press Officer Defne Topcu (Michelle Bonnard) ignores loner Kyle (Rory Kinnear) as he tries to make a conversation. In another scene, Leanne’s parents, Barbara (Penelope Wilton) and John (Patrick Malahide) are introduced.

The family slowly learn of Leanne’s disappearance, and that Rosie and Ethan are now missing too.

Kyle seems to have picked them up in a white van.

The police begin the investigation, but the Press Officer feels there is a lack of support, and the DSI in charge is relatively new in the position.

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The story begins one hot summer’s day when Leanne Wellings (Christine Tremarco) is taking her two young children to visit her grandfather.

She stops to buy flowers at a motorway layby, but then inexplicably vanishes, leaving her two small children waiting for her in her car, lost and far from home.

Her two small children then set off to find her, only to go missing as well.

Their ordeal is captured on CCTV cameras, and before long, the family’s heart-stopping trauma is not only a complex police investigation, but a major national news story.

Episodes of Five Days on Max S1.E1 ∙ Day One
Mother of three, Leanne Wellings, disappears whilst out looking for flowers.

S1.E2 ∙ Day Three
Leanne’s mother, Barbara, makes an emotional appeal for her daughter’s return.

Episodes of Five Days on Max S1.E3 ∙ Day Twenty Eight
Barclay has to defend the course of his enquiry to an independent police review.

S1.E4 ∙ Day Thirty Three
Leanne’s body is discovered in a lake, and the family begins to turn on each other.

Episodes of Five Days on Max S1.E5 ∙ Day Seventy Nine
Leanne’s murder is eventually solved, but can the family get on with their lives?