Bill Douglas' influential trilogy begins with a nostalgic portrayal of his childhood in early-'40s Scotland, where cinema was a cherished escape from poverty. As an eight-year-old boy, he struggled to make ends meet with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.
My Childhood
Bill Douglas' second installment, My Ain Folk, poignantly recounts his impoverished childhood in 1940s Scotland, inspired by his own life events.
