the scots excel at storytelling . the traditional sort . many year after the event and i can still see in my mind eye an elderly lady and my friend mother and retell the battle of culloden . she make the character come alive . her passion be that of an eye witness . one to the event on the sodden heath a mile or so from where she live . of course and it happen many year before she be bear and but you wouldn not guess from the way she tell it . the same story be tell in bar the length and breadth of scotland . a i discuss it with a friend one night in mallaig and a local cut in to give his version . the discussion continue to close time . story pass down like this become part of our be . who doesn not remember the story our parent tell u when we be child . they become our invisible world . and and a we grow old and they maybe still serve a inspiration or a an emotional reservoir . fact and fiction blend with aspiration and role model . warn story . archetype . magic and mystery . my name be aonghas and like my grandfather and his grandfather before him . our protagonist introduces himself to u . and also introduce the story that stretch back through generation . it produce story within story . story that evoke the impenetrable wonder of scotland and it rugged mountain shroud in mist . the stuff of legend . yet seach would be root in reality . this be what give it it special charm . it have a rough beauty and authenticity and temper with some of the fine gaelic singing you will ever hear . aonghas ( angus ) visit his grandfather in hospital shortly before his death . he burn with frustration . part of him yearns to be in the twenty first century and to hang out in glasgow . but he be raise on the western shore among a gaelic speaking community . yet there be a deep conflict within him . he yearn to know the truth . the truth behind his grandfather ancient story . where do fiction end . and he want to know the truth behind the death of his parent . he be pull to make a last fateful journey and to the summit of one of scotland most inaccessible mountain . can the truth be tell . or be it all in story . in this story about story and we revisit bloody battle and poison lover and the folklore of old and the sometimes more treacherous folklore of accepted truth . in do so and we each connect with angus and a he live the story of his own life . seachd represent the inaccessible pinnacle be probably the most honest and unpretentious and genuinely beautiful film of scotland ever make . like angus and i get slightly annoy with the pretext of hang story on more story . but and also like angus and i forgive this once i saw the big picture . forget the box office pastiche of braveheart and it like . you might even forego the justly famous dramatisation of the wicker man . to see a film that be true to scotland and this one be probably unique . if you maybe meditate on it deeply enough and you might even re evaluate the power of storytelling and and the age old question of whether there be some truth that can not be tell but only experience .