Maëlle Leggiadro's London anthology series, Storeys Apart, now releasing on YouTube every Tuesday and Thursday

30 June 2026 | By Natalia Albin

Storeys Apart is a seven-part anthology series set in London, following seven lives that appear entirely separate but are deeply intertwined. With themes of ambition, immigration, queer love and survival, each episode is built like a short film.

The series is written and directed by Maëlle Leggiadro, a BIFA-qualified director, and is entirely self-funded by alumni of the Identity School of Acting.

"Storeys Apart came to me during a difficult time in my personal life," Leggiadro tells Short Stuff. "I am so grateful for this story and its cast and crew. We built this amazing series from the ground up, and invested everything that we are in it, we became friends in the process, and the bond that we have now is truly unique."

The series centres on a break-up: Nora, a writer, ends things with Samson, a climate activist, after four years. From there, the story fans out. Anne, a young carer stretched thin by her mother's illness, finds an unexpected connection at a north London pub with Toby, a Nigerian-born actor facing deportation after his visa renewal is denied. Theodore, weighed down by his father's expectations, stumbles into a friendship with Alex, a painter who is also a cam girl. And Delilah, Nora's loyal friend, is holding onto more than one secret.

Each of the seven characters gets their own episode, but their lives keep colliding in ways none of them fully see yet. "Maëlle gave us a chance to bring heart to the biggest themes shaping the lives of twenty-somethings today," says James Eykyn, who plays Samson. For Victoria Bernard, who plays Anne, that meant sitting with something she found relatable. "Anne's journey is about learning that she can't fix everything for everyone. She loves deeply and would do anything for the people around her, but she slowly realises that caring for others doesn't mean sacrificing herself completely."

Running approximately 40 minutes across its full anthology, the first four episodes are out now on YouTube, with episodes 5 and 6 coming this week. Watch the trailer below.