Code of Silence ★★★★

In this compelling British crime drama the protagonist is a character who yearns for something more, even if it puts her life and liberty at risk. Alison Woods (Rose Ayling-Ellis) is a young deaf woman, juggling jobs in the city of Canterbury. Her day shift is kitchen hand at the police station canteen, where a desperate officer Detective Sergeant Ashleigh Francis (Charotte Ritchie), borrows her. A criminal gang planning a robbery is under surveillance, and the investigators need a lip-reader to parse their covert footage.

Rose Ayling-Ellis as Alison Brooks, a deaf kitchen hand who is recruited by the police to lip-read in Code of Silence.

Smart, underestimated, and just embittered enough to be reckless, Alison jumps at the opportunity. The hearing world finally wa

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