1987. A Glasgow bus driver, George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious life in Glasgow. Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her family dispersed; she’s suicidal. George takes her to Nicaragua to find out what has happened to them and to help her face her past.

Informed by the time screenwriter Paul Laverty spent working for human rights groups in Central America, his first collaboration with Ken Loach holds the kindness of strangers dear. Ever the charmer, Robert Carlyle is heartwarming as a man willing to change his life for love in this rousing film.