Nightswimming: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The series creates a multi layered narrative, twisting and turning with every revelation as Matthew returns to his home in Portugal where he was convicted of the brutal murder of his family years earlier.

Weaving between past and present, Nightswimming picks apart the events that led up to the devastating night when Matthew's wife, Beth, and two teenage sons, Alex and Simon, were brutally attacked in their beachfront home, while Matthew was performing his nightly ritual, swimming in the ocean.  In the present, Matthew mounts his own investigation into the crime that tore his life apart, confronting old friends, revisiting broken relationships and interrogating the people who built the case against him. But as he slowly unravels what happened a decade before, he struggles to plead his own innocence, when he discovers it was someone much closer to home that helped to put him away.

Series details

• Title: Nightswimming
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Thriller
• Status in TVmaze: In Development
• Network listed by TVmaze: ITV1
• Network country: United Kingdom
• TVMaze ID: 95483
• IMDb ID: tt50593909

Cast and credited roles

• Lennie James — Matthew

Source and licence

Adapted from Nightswimming on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.