The soldier in the spinal carriage can neither move nor speak. Who is he? His fellow wounded and officers are intent on finding out.

Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.

This film is about a teenager who struggles over his purpose and meaning in life. One day, he saves a child’s life and tells his girlfriend that that act may have been the reason he was born. That weekend, while cleaning his mom’s attic, he discovers in her diary that he was never born. At that moment, he ceases to exist and because he never existed, the child he had saved is killed because he wasn’t there to save him.

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.