Acting
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
' I don't want to dust and polish. And I don't want to work on a farm. I want to write poetry, great poetry, as great as Shakespeare.' Those are the words of 16-year-old Janie as she comes to the end of a seven-year stay at an Aberdeenshire orphanage. (BBC Genome)
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...
Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.
A 'lorry driver groupie' decides to start a new life.
When a farmer's land is wanted for a new town development, a lot of people find their lives put in the melting pot.
