Jess explores relationships in which abuse can evolve in complex and confusing ways, meeting with survivors to discuss how it can be difficult to recognise the danger of this abuse until it's too late.

Jess Hill explores why partners in abusive relationships get asked the same invasive questions, asking why they don't just leave, and the effects this dangerous line of questioning can have.

Jess explains how the family unit is the most violent social group in society; Phil Cleary talks about the murder of his sister three decades earlier, and how little has changed since.