Ray Jeffries

Au début des années soixante-dix sur la côte nord-ouest de l’Écosse, la communauté d'une petite ville célèbre à contrecœur le mariage de Bess, jeune fille naïve et pieuse, et de Jan, homme d'âge mûr qui travaille sur une plate-forme pétrolière. Leur bonheur va être brisé par un accident qui va paralyser Jan.

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.

Life in a Scottish New Town

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.

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.

Quelque part dans la campagne écossaise, en septembre 1944, Paolo, Umberto et Luigi, prisonniers de guerre italiens, essaient, tant bien que mal, de vivre leur délicate situation de déracinés dans leur dur labeur quotidien à s'occuper des cultures et des moissons. Janie, une jeune anglaise, se sent des attirances pour Luigi qui sera accusé à tort d'un viol sur une jeune paysanne et même disculpé de ce crime. Il devra payer de sa relation affective avec la petite anglaise, interdite entre autochtone et prisonnier...

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.

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.

Une multinationale décide d'implanter un complexe pétrolier dans un petit village de pécheurs du Nord de l’Écosse. Les tractations que mènent technocrates et villageois prennent une tournure bien surprenante.

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.

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