Based on Helen Fitzgerald's best-selling eponymously titled book, The Cry is a powerful psychological thriller starring Victoria and former Doctor Who star Jenna Coleman and Ewen Leslie from Top of the Lake: China Girl. Filmed in Scotland and Australia, it tells the story of Joanna (Coleman) and Alistair (Leslie), parents to a newborn son, who find themselves at the centre of an unthinkable tragedy. The project, which will screen on BBC 1 in Autumn 2018, shot in Glasgow in Spring of the same year.
The Cry is a Synchronicity Films production for the BBC, in association with ABC, Creative Scotland, December Media, Film Victoria and Sunbird Media Ltd.