MARGARET
81 (turns 25)
Brash · Volatile · Resourceful · Unapologetic
Margaret has spent her entire life looking after everyone but herself. After fleeing Ireland with an abusive husband, she raised her daughter alone, only to later lose her to illness and become the sole carer for her young granddaughter. Survival came first. Education, freedom, and youth came last, if at all.
81 (turns 25)
Brash · Volatile · Resourceful · Unapologetic
Margaret has spent her entire life looking after everyone but herself. After fleeing Ireland with an abusive husband, she raised her daughter alone, only to later lose her to illness and become the sole carer for her young granddaughter. Survival came first. Education, freedom, and youth came last, if at all.
Smart, streetwise, and fiercely protective, Margaret learned to make money the only way she could. When her underground poker operation grew into an illegal gambling empire, it wasn’t greed, it was necessity. Being betrayed and incarcerated at Sundown only hardened her resolve.
When the medical trial restores her youth, Margaret doesn’t see redemption, she sees opportunity. A chance to reclaim the life she was denied, settle old scores, and finally put herself first. For Margaret, this isn’t a second chance. It’s her first.
Their relationship and opposing arcs drive the series, asking what really makes a life worth living.
NIGEL
84 (turns 25)
KIND - PROPER - INTELLECTUAL - REPRESSED
84 (turns 25)
KIND - PROPER - INTELLECTUAL - REPRESSED
Nigel has lived his life by the rules. A former librarian, devoted husband, and father, he built a quiet, respectable existence, the kind that looks perfect from the outside. But it was a lie. For decades, Nigel has suppressed his true self, unable to accept his love for another man, Morris, out of fear of being judged and cast out.
That repression has left him deeply lonely and depressed. Now an inmate at Sundown Geriatric Offenders Institution, Nigel sees the medical trial as a final act of usefulness, a way to help his estranged son and atone for a life he feels he wasted.
When he wakes up young again, Nigel is given something he never allowed himself before: time. Time to escape. Time to grieve. And possibly, time to live openly and honestly for the first time in his life.
Secondary characters
Margaret and Nigel are surrounded by people who want something from them, or need them to fail. From corporate sharks to dishevelled scientists and fractured family members, each reflects a different relationship to youth, power, and regret. Together, they form a pressure system that pushes the story forward.
