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What does it mean to take action? To bear witness? What does it cost? These stories take us into the heart of contemporary New York City and its residents’ lives. We meet children, grandmothers and even ghosts as they strive to connect, to stand up for, and to really see each other. Their relationships shape not only their own futures but those of their families and their city. In its portraits of families and friendships, Witness enacts its own testimony.

Holly Evans and her over-protective mother, Josie, are living a hand-to-mouth existence, moving constantly from one squalid dump to the next. When they move into an illegally sub-let council flat in Manchester’s rough Lansdowne Estate, Holly finally feels settled for the first time in her life - even if she is forbidden to go out, or even open the front door to callers when her mum’s at work due to fear of eviction. Increasingly cut off from friends at school, she soon feels isolated and alone in the world.

Cornell is having a bad time. Kicked out of secondary school for a fight he didn't start, he finds himself in a Pupil Referral Unit. Here he makes friends with one of the Sinclair family. You don't mess with the Sinclairs, and when Ryan Sinclair demands Cornell comes with him to teach another student some respect, Ryan witnesses something that will change his life. Torn between protecting his family and himself, Cornell has one hell of a decision to make.

The Drew Smith Series features the dark gritty urban capers of a District of Columbia trial attorney. Material Witness is the third in the series. He works to free an innocent man detained in a murder investigation enlisting the help of fellow attorney Edward Miller and TV news reporter Stephanie Gilchrist. The three become ensnared in a love triangle while Smith wrestles with his post-traumatic stress disorder. The team penetrates the Chinese underground human smuggling network and when their lives are threatened, Smith races against time to save them. Material Witness establishes Drew Smith as a seasoned attorney.