It's 1943 & the war has brought rationing to the Hebridean islands of Great & Little Todday When food is in short supply it is bad enough but when the whisky runs out it looks like the end of the world Morale is at rock bottom George Campbell needs a wee dram to give him the courage to stand up to his mother & marry Catriona The priest the doctor & of course the landlord at the inn are all having a very thin time of it There's no conversation no jolity no fun
- until a shipwreck off the coast brings a piece of extraordinary good fortune