Angela chronicles the life of her adopted daughter Jamie, a crack addict and prostitute. At sixteen, after a hidden pregnancy, Jamie attends art college while caring for her baby. When she disappears with the baby, Angela discovers Jamie is on crack, working as a prostitute, and being chased by a pimp with a gun. The court places Max in Angela’s safe care.
After committing armed robbery, Jamie is sent to a probation hostel where she gives birth to a son. During her stay, she commits over £100,000 of cheque fraud. Upon her release from the hostel, Jamie returns to drugs and prostitution. She abandons her child who is placed in foster care.
Jamie’s flat in Coventry becomes a Crack House. During a stay in prison for shoplifting, she manages to escape. Following an aborted drug run to Jamaica, Jamie returns to prison, where she gives birth to a daughter. The baby joins her brother in care.
While in prison, for cheque fraud, Jamie escapes yet again. Following a spell in drug rehabilitation, her life spirals out of control.
A BBC documentary ‘Every Parent’s Nightmare’ tells Jamie’s story – that of an ordinary middle-class girl from Stratford-on-Avon.
