My Ain Folk

In a Scottish mining village, a boy named Jamie (Stephen Archibald) loses his maternal grandmother, and the house he shares with his brother Tommy (Hughie Restorick) comes apart. Tommy is sent to a welfare home, and Jamie goes to live with his other grandmother (Jean Taylor Smith), where the days pass in silence and sudden violence. Bill Douglas keeps the frame still and the rooms nearly bare, and the children stand in them with nothing to say.