Bernard McKenna

The second part of the revered Bill Douglas Trilogy follows Jamie as he ends up in a children’s home.

While shooting a low-budget horror movie in the woods, a film crew starts suspecting that the staged killings for the camera may be very real.

1945: Jamie and Tommy live an isolated existence with their maternal grandmother in Newcraighall, a Scottish mining village. Jamie’s only friendship is with Helmuth, a German prisoner of war. With his mother in a mental institution, and his father absent, he is subject to the hardships of poverty.