Since Maxine Carr, the former girlfriend of Soham murderer Ian Huntley, left jail and started life with a new identity in 2004, more than a dozen women around Britain have been mistaken for her and hunted from their homes, despite having no resemblance to Carr and being able to prove their real identity.
For the vicious whispering campaigns that swept their towns such details became irrelevant, driven by an unfulfilled vengeance against Maxine Carr.
This documentary meets three innocent women whose lives took surreal and horrific turns when they moved to new towns. To some of their neighbours they were unquestionably Maxine Carr, and each woman's protests fell on deaf ears.
Maxx Ginnane's first half-hour film is a tale of a modern day witch-hunt, examining mob-justice and exploring how Maxine Carr became a hate figure.
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