The story is about a Scottish lad, born in Western Scotland during World War II, called Jimmy McCall, who grows up on the East coast of Scotland under adverse post war conditions. His father is a well-bred Englishman with a strict Victorian upbringing, highly educated and psychologically traumatised from WWII (post traumatic stress disorder - PTSD). The mother is a simple working class Scottish woman. She has problems dealing with her husband and...