The Teaser for 'The Woman in the Wall' Is Creepy & Atmospheric

Sometimes the most terrifying horror stories are human ones. Such is the case with the upcoming Showtime drama The Woman in the Wall, a tense and emotional thriller that aims to explore the legacy of one of Ireland's most shocking and inhumane scandals — the institutions known as the Magdalene Laundries, where women were often put to work as punishment for having sex outside of marriage.

The series stars Ruth Wilson (His Dark Materials) as Lorna Brady, a woman who wakes up to discover a dead body in her house with no memory of how it got there or if she might be responsible for what appears to be a brutal murder. This is because Lorna regularly suffers from extreme bouts of sleepwalking, incidents which began during her teenage imprisonment at the fictional Kilkinure Convent, where her daughter was cruelly taken away from her.

Peaky Blinders' Daryl McCormack plays Detective Colman Akande, who's investigating a seemingly unrelated crime. But when he meets Lorna, he'll be forced to confront his own haunting secrets. As Akande investigates a murder and Lorna searches for the truth about the daugher whose fate she has never known, their paths will become intertwined in unexpected ways.