Twenty minutes to break your heart and rebuild it wrong.
During the Highland Clearances, a stubborn old tenant farmer and a young Waterloo veteran strike up a reluctant and uneasy bond in a relentless search through highlands; glimpsing the human cost of the clearances as they go.
Cinematography
Highlands as character—beautiful, hostile, complicit.
Acting
Kerr and MacRae: silence louder than the Clearances.
Direction
Boyle makes twenty minutes feel like a lifetime.
Director
Neil Boyle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Highland Clearances displaced up to 500,000 Scots; this film compresses centuries of trauma into one impossible journey.
Boyle cast locals with ancestral connections to cleared lands—Kerr's own family history informed Andrew's stubbornness.
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