39 minutes to shatter everything you thought you knew about home.
A young man must confront his family's past when he returns to his childhood home on the Isle of Skye for the funeral of his father.
Cinematography
Skye's brutal beauty as character, not backdrop.
Direction
Mackinnon stretches 39 minutes into lifetime's weight.
Acting
Blair's restraint—grief as paralysis, not performance.
Director
Douglas Mackinnon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for Scottish TV's 'First Sight' strand, it helped launch 1990s Celtic cinema's raw emotional turn.
Mackinnon later directed Doctor Who and Sherlock—this early short already shows his knack for making landscapes breathe.
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