The Bill Douglas Trilogy recounts the harrowing experiences of a young boy, Jamie, growing up in crippling poverty: material and emotional impoverishment; harrowing privations at the hands of his paternal grandmother; incarceration in a children’s home; living in a hostel for down-and-outs.
My Childhood

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Bill Douglas' second installment, My Ain Folk, poignantly recounts his impoverished childhood in 1940s Scotland, inspired by his own life events.

My Ain Folk

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After losing his grandmother, a young boy named Jamie is uprooted from his home and forced to live with a distant relative, while his brother is sent to a welfare institution.

My Way Home

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Jamie leaves his childhood home to live with his grandmother, embarking on a journey of self-discovery through various jobs and military service, which leads to an unlikely friendship with Robert in Egypt.

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