The always brilliant Peter Mullan brings his formidable presence to this quirky dramedy: he is angry and weary, disillusioned but kind-hearted, someone who got his feelings hurt a long time ago… but wouldn’t dream of making a fuss about it.
Kenneth is a cantankerous local historian and widower in the fictional Scottish town of Aberloch, obsessed with the memory of his obscure ancestor Sir Douglas Weatherford, an unscrupulous 18th-century landowner and amateur surgeon. Kenneth embarrassingly dresses up in wig and knee breeches as his ancestor to give excruciating lectures about his hero to uncomprehending tourists. But then a low-rent ‘Game of Thrones’-style TV show starts filming in the locality, leaving Kenneth ready to blow, and what makes it worse is that Sir Douglas’s ghost is lurking about the place, full of contempt for his ridiculous and pathetic descendant.
