The British Government wants to ruin the island of Longsea with a military base that they’re pushing forward with even after the Island’s council democratically voted to stop it - but Longsea’s past is unclear, and when an American journalist comes to town, their investigations might muddy the international waters…

Old memories are awakened in a terrifying and dangerous way when Jock McGinn counters a strange little girl in the flats where he lives. A crucial stepping-stone in the career of distinguished actor and director David Hayman. It was also a seminal work of writer Bryan Elsley who would go on to create the award-winning Skins series.

It is the 1950s: Bill Thompson is a middle-class English boy sent by his father to serve an engineering apprenticeship on the Clyde. He lodges with a Greenock family, and forms an attachment to his landlady, Mrs Mulvenny , which is to affect his life for the next 20 years