**_Give it time and you'll be rewarded_** > _A total of 5,145 potential victims were referred into the system in 2017, an increase of 35 per cent on the year before, and the National Crime Agency (NCA) believes the number will continue to rise._ > > _Suspected labour exploitation was the most frequently cited category, accounting for 2,352 cases - nearly half of all referrals. Other reports were linked to suspected sexual exploitation (1,744) and domestic servitude (488)._ - "British children being forced into modern slavery in UK as 5,000 potential victims found" (Lizzie Dearden); _Th__e Independent_ (March 26, 2018) Nelson "Nelly" Rowe (Lennie James) is a popular self-styled womaniser living on a Deptford council estate in London, whose life is turned upside down when he is arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his thirteen-year-old daughter Jody (Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness), whom he hasn't seen in ten years. After convincing the police of his innocence, and frustrated with the way the case is progressing, Nelly decides to take matters into his own hands and try to track down Jody himself. From a plot perspective, the first season of _Save Me_ starts very slowly, but what it does do extremely well is build up a background of small details that help establish the _milieu_ as authentic and lived-in. The housing estate in Deptford is essentially a character in itself, and the…

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