The Widow is a British television drama series created and written by Harry and Jack Williams. It stars Kate Beckinsale as a woman who believes that her husband was killed in a plane crash three years earlier, but then discovers that he is still alive in the Congo. The eight-episode series features multiple story lines and explores themes such as violence and corruption.
The series follows Georgia Wells whose husband Will died in a plane crash on a trip to the Congo in Africa. Three years later, she sees a man resembling him on a news story reporting civil unrest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She travels to Kinshasa to uncover the truth.