Director: Christine Ko
Sleepwalking turns a small Irish town into a crime scene in this six-part mystery, where the line between witness and suspect keeps shifting under Lorna Brady's feet.
What is The Woman In The Wall about?
Lorna Brady has spent decades sleepwalking through grief after her infant daughter was taken from a Magdalene laundry, and the habit has left her unable to trust her own nights. When she wakes to find a stranger's body inside her house, she cannot say whether she is the victim of someone else's scheme or the cause of the death herself. A detective arriving to investigate the wider fallout of the laundry's closure starts circling the same street, and the show follows both threads as old institutional secrets resurface alongside Lorna's private confusion. Neighbors who once looked away begin talking, and every answer she chases only opens another question about who benefits from her unreliable memory.
Cast & crew
Ruth Wilson carries the series with a performance built on hesitation and dread rather than certainty, letting Lorna's confusion feel physical rather than theatrical. Daryl McCormack plays the investigating detective with a quiet patience that contrasts her volatility, while Hilda Fay and the surrounding ensemble ground the town's collective guilt in small, believable gestures.
Context & significance
Creator Christine Ko draws directly on Ireland's Magdalene laundry history, using the institutions' documented abuses as the backdrop for a present-day thriller rather than a straight historical drama. Filmed on Irish and Northern Irish locations, the series folds a real, still-raw social reckoning into its central mystery, which is part of why the show drew notice beyond typical crime-drama audiences on its 2023 release.
Where & how to watch
The Woman in the Wall is available to watch on K-Time with a free account login, with a Persian-language interface, dubbing, and subtitles built for Farsi-speaking viewers who want the mystery without losing any of its dialogue-heavy detail.