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Jamie leaves the childrens home to live with his paternal grandmother After working in a mine and in a tailors shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companions

The second part My ain folk of Bill Douglas influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early 40s Scotland Cinema was his only escape he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars a

Jamie and Tommy are separated by the death of their grandmother Jamie with another relative and Tommy to a welfare home Now Jamie is all alone and his life is not at all happy taken over by silence, rejection and violence