Emilia Fox plays the teenage and adult daughter of Charles Dance's character. Ten years earlier, Fox played the wife of Dance's character in Rebecca (1997).
The three parts, shown in reverse chronological order of the story, were called "The Four Last Things", "The Judgement of Strangers", and "The Office of the Dead".
Over the three episodes, Wendy (Clare Holman) was required to age by thirty years. In the first episode (which took place in the present day), she was made up to play a sixty-five-year-old grandmother.