Ray Jeffries

Бог дает каждому что-то, чтобы он стал лучше. Молодая девушка Бесс из отдаленной общины на северо-западе Шотландии влюбилась в хорошего парня — Яна, работающего на буровой установке в море. Несмотря на противостояние родственников, они женятся. Бесс просит Бога, чтобы Ян всегда был рядом с ней, и Ян возвращается к ней искалеченным после несчастного случая на буровой. Что может сделать молодая женщина, чтобы ее любимый остался жив? На какую жертву может пойти?

Produced for Scottish television, Venus Peter was financed by the Orkney Islands Council. The title character is transformed into a "sea child" when he is baptized with salt water. Though his family tries hard to accustom him to life on land, Peter (Gordon R. Strachan) yearns to go to sea -- or, at the very least, to escape his cloistered community. He finds a kindred spirit in Princess Paloma (Juliet Cadzow), the village "looney," who, alas, is eventually carted away to an institution. Briefly fascinated by poetry and music, thanks to his lovely teacher Miss Balsibie (Sinead Cusack), Peter is disillusioned when he finds his teacher in the arms of her lover (and out of her clothing). The final blow to Peter's idealism comes when his grandfather's ship is repossessed. Despite the bleakness of his surroundings and his seemingly dead-end existence, however, Peter never completely lets go of his dreams, and the film ends on a positive note.

Graeme has musical talent and is struggling to be allowed to express it. Lois is being pushed by her mother into solo parts in the girls' choir. Together they have to perform at a competitive concert while parents and supporters keep score.

Alan and Mary are pretty miserable together and split up. As a very presentable Glaswegian photographer, Alan soon has chances to find consolation elsewhere, but more and more thinks of Mary. She, however, seems a lot less keen to try again.

In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later their paths cross.

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.

Set in 1943 in Scotland during World War II. Janie is a young housewife married to a man named Dougal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war rehabilitation program, Janie and Dougal welcome three Italian POWs to work on their farm. Soon, Janie falls in love with one of them...

Сотрудник нефтяной компании Макинтайр отправляется в шотландскую глушь, чтобы решить вопрос о приобретении территории для строительства нефтеперерабатывающего завода. От своего босса он получает специальное задание: наблюдать за созвездием Девы и сообщать обо всех необычных событиях в северном небе. Приехав на место, Мак оказывается заворожён красотой местных пейзажей, звёздным небом, воздухом и приветливыми жителями небольшого поселения, расположившегося вдоль береговой линии залива. Дела идут неплохо: местные жители рады принять щедрое предложение нефтяной компании и уже готовятся стать богатыми, однако Маку уже не по душе конечная цель всего этого предприятия.

The oil rigs provide rich pickings for those who work on them, but for wives isolated from husbands affluence is not enough.

Jake lives in the shadow of his dying grandfather, who was once the town's toughest hard man. Despite their hatred of each other, Jake's sole aim is to be as tough as the old man was. One day in Jake's life, as he drifts, drinks and fights, leads to a bleak realisation.