Blood Brothers

Have you heard about the Johnstone twins? Possibly not, as no one else has either.Blood brothers revolves around one lie, one deciet but has one huge impact.

It is an understandable lie; for those who conspire to fashion it even a necessary, justifiable lie - one small adjustment of fact, a slight re-shaping of truth and all done with the very best of motives.One woman is unable to have her own child, the other woman has so many that she is barely able to raise them all and is, indeed, threatened by the authorities with having some of them taken into care.

In such circumstances isn't it perfectly understandable that between these two women an arrangement is made in which one woman agrees to give up a child and one agrees to raise that child as her own?Well, yes. if, in the case of our two women, Mrs Johnstone and Mrs Lyons, they had conducted their refreshingly modern and sentiment-free piece of social-engineering with complete transparency, allowing all those around them, those likely to be affected by their actions, to know.Join us as we follow the lives of Mickey and Eddie over the years, watching them grow and find love before a seperation no one wanted, no one asked for.