Passing Places
A Road Movie for the Stage
The story
Alex and Brian are a pair of smalltown boys going nowhere, who get out the only way they know how—doing a runner with a prized surfboard owned by Alex’s psychopathic gangster boss, Binks. The only transport available is a worn-out Lada, and they head for Thurso, where the surf is up all year round.
As the dynamic duo from Motherwell head north, Binks is in hot pursuit.
Encountering electric crofters, hippie surf gurus, French car wreckers and a host of other characters along the way, the lads’ enlightening journey takes them from Motherwell to Thurso along every winding single track road the West of Scotland has to offer.
The action switches from east to west as the boys and the violent Binks both head north, towards a showdown on Thurso beach...