RUBY is a 17-year-old girl who has left home to live with an older man. Enigmatic Frank is on a spiritual quest, rejecting society to live freely – an alluring prospect for a restless young girl looking for adventure.

A probation office, a prison cell, a homeless shelter… Sugar is set in an abstract world where we meet three women all ‘doing time’ in very different ways, caught in a waiting space of continuous floors and revolving doors. Three survivors. Three voices seldom heard.  

The Roman period saw the most extraordinary meeting of cultures that has ever occurred in this country. Emperor Hadrian built his wall right across the North and sent huge numbers of soldiers from all over the Empire to defend it.

The Romans brought their ideals, beliefs, architecture and art to a previously unruly land populated by warring tribes. Angela Bruce discovers what happened when these two worlds collided nearly 2000 years ago.