劇集是一部以迷人的倫敦切爾西區為背景的當代犯罪片，住在船屋的探長Max Arnold 雖出生在精致富有的切爾西區，但他本人行事低調的風格卻與精英專屬的切爾西區相去甚80s電影。他與周圍的鄰居相隔一段距離，住在一艘船屋上。Max 和他的搭檔Priya Shamsie探員解決了一系列駭人聽聞的謀殺案，揭開了切爾西標志性建筑背后的陰暗世界。他們所遇見的尸體，出現在一些不太可能的地方，包括家族經營的意大利餐廳、與足球流氓有勾連的社區花園中心等。
神馬影視Coming as it does from the depths of the Stalinist regime, the Russian Road to Life is a remarkably optimistic film. A host of nonprofessional children are cast as Moscow street kids, left homeless by the Bolshevik revolution. They get into all sorts of melodramatic scrapes until they're rounded up by kindly, altruistic Soviet functionaries. The children are reformed (in the nicest possible way) and made useful members of society. Road to Life is simplistic in its solutions to society's problems, albeit no more so than the usual Hollywood product from the same period.