"Five of us had run away that fateful night just over a month
before. Only three of us would be going home. And nothing,
nothing would ever be the same again."Glasgow, 1965. Headstrong
teenager Jack Mackay cannot allow for even the possibility of a
life of predictability and routine. The seventeen-year-old has
just one destination on his mind-London-and successfully
convinces his four friends, and fellow bandmates, to join him in
abandoning their homes to pursue a goal of musical stardom.
Glasgow, 2015. Jack Mackay dares not look back on a life of
failure and mediocrity. The heavy-hearted sixty-seven-year-old is
still haunted by what might have been.
His recollections of the terrible events that befell him and his
friends some fifty years earlier, and how he did not act when it
mattered most is a memory he has tried to escape his entire adult
life.