Brilliantly acted and especially penetrating portrait of brotherhood. Russell is a drug addict and musician from Edinburgh. His brother wants to get him back on the straight and narrow by taking him along on a trip to the Highlands.
Russell is a failing musician with a manic-depressive chemical dependency. His brother Tam forces him into a car and drives him against his will to the furthest northern coast of Scotland in the hope of a rescue. Slowly, irresistibly, the wild isolation and desolate terrain of the highlands begins to work its magic.—Jack Shea