Joe Taylor (Ewan McGregor) é um jovem escocês perdido. Ele consegue emprego na barca de um casal, Leslie (Peter Mullan) e Ella (Tilda Swinton), que viaja de Glasgow para Edinburgh. Um dia ele descobre o corpo de uma mulher boiando no canal. A polícia investiga o caso e chega a prender um suspeito, mas aos poucos Joe deixa transparecer que sabe mais sobre o caso do que aparenta. Na realidade ele conhecia a mulher. Enquanto isso uma atração entre Joe e Ella fica evidente e Leslie acaba percebendo. A tensão entre os três é agravada pelo pequeno espaço que há na barca.
A film about Alexander Trocchi. Scottish born poet, writer, translator and author of "Young Adam" and "Cain's Book". Part of the film was made at the old Arts Laboratory and includes a discussion with William Burroughs. A portrait of Alexander Trocchi, covering his history as a writer, his interest in drugs, his family life, and ‘Sigma’, the organisation he founded to bring together like-minded people.
A short film documenting what was referred to as "The International Poetry Incarnation". It was billed as Great Britain's first full-scale "happening", with the world's leading Beat poets together under one roof at the Royal Albert Hall on June 11, 1965, for an evening of near-hallucinatory revelry. It came to be seen as one of the cultural high points of the Swinging Sixties.
