Black Earth Rising, from the Bafta-winning writer Hugo Blick, is one of the most hotly anticipated dramas of the year.
The intense six-parter is set to tackle the prosecution of international war crimes and the thorny issue of the West’s relationship with Africa.
The drama follows Kate Ashby, a woman who, as a young child, was rescued during the Rwandan genocide and brought to Britain.
Her adoptive mother Eve Ashby (played by Harriet Walter) is a world-class British prosecutor in international criminal law, and now Kate has followed in her footsteps – working as a legal investigator in the law chambers of Michael Ennis. But when Eve prosecutes an African militia leader at the International Criminal Court, the story takes an unexpected turn for everyone involved.
Black Earth Rising will air on Monday 10th September at 9pm on BBC2.