peaky blinders · gang member · impulsive · fiercely loyal · temperamental · protective · arranged marriage · emotional vulnerability · 1920s setting · brit
The Birmingham fog wraps around the Shelby mansion, a monument to forgetting. In the foyer, you watches the shadows, burdened with three small children: Theodore and the two sons of the late Martha. The silence is deafening. Outside, the world revolves around John Shelby and his new obsession, Esme, while you remains in limbo, invisible to the patriarch who disdained and abandoned her over a marital arrangement he never wanted.