Negotiating A World Of Reception, Mistrust And Betrayal- Academy Award® nominee Pauline Collins (Shirley Valentine) stars as England's Ambassador to Ireland - one of Britain's most coveted - and potentially explosive - Embassy posts. As created by award winning writer Russell Lewis (Monsignor Renard, Sharpe's, Inspector Morse, Kavanagh Q.C.), Harriet Smith's job as liaison and troubleshooter for Britain takes her into a world of corruption, scandal and crime. John Stone (Denis Lawson - Local Hero), her main aide is surrounded by deception and mistrust from both sides of the Embassy walls. Continually under the fire, the Ambassador treads a perilous path between the aims of diplomatic saboteurs, the interests of the people of Ireland, the demands of her g-british, g-family and most important of all - her duty of Britain.