A history, a legend, a rumour - three stories drawn from the shadows of England. The Lifeblood depicts the last days of Mary Queen of Scots, as four men weave about her a web of love and hatred; Wolfpit brings alive the extraordinary chronicle of the Green Children of Suffolk who appeared inexplicably one summer morning; and love comes to Mary Kelly, The Only Girl in the World otherwise known as the last victim of Jack the Ripper..