Questa serie racconta il viaggio di un giovane immigrato ebreo che naviga tra le complessità di una nuova terra e cultura. Dalle sue origini in Russia, arriva in Scozia, affrontando le sfide di avviare un'attività e trovare l'amore in mezzo alle differenze sociali. La narrazione esplora temi di identità, resilienza e l'esperienza dell'immigrato. È una saga avvincente di costruzione di una nuova vita pur mantenendo il proprio patrimonio.
Avram Escovitz, a young Jew, arrives in Glasgow from Russia. He dreams of playing football until WWI intervenes and he begins work as a credit draper, peddling goods to Highlanders. A stranger in a strange land, Avram must set up a new business and capture the heart of a Highland lass. But how easy will it be to shake off his Jewish roots?
Glasgow 1915. With rent strikes, anti-war sentiment and a revolution brewing in Russia, a young Jewish woman discovers a taste for protest and the empowerment of women made possible by birth control. Her political sensibilities are fired up even further by a personal trauma, while a new love affair presents difficult choices.
Working as an agent for one of the richest men in the world, Polish-Jewish immigrant Lev Sela is swept into a relationship with Celia Kahn, after stumbling upon an area of land that doesn't exist on any map. With passion, tension and conflicting ideals and populated with an extraordinary cast of characters, it evokes a troubled, yet beautiful land.