Netflix's brand-new limited series drama, Toxic Town, is based on a true story, and the show's conclusion perfectly captures the real-life resolution.

A group of mothers whose children suffered birth defects banded together to fight for justice after toxic waste contaminated their town. | ITV News Anglia

I n Toxic Town, a drama out now on Netflix, poisonous dust in the air causes children to be born with missing limbs and other physical abnormalities. The alarming story is based on a real incident, when people in the English town of Corby inhaled toxic dust that was later linked to birth defects in a cluster of children.