With frequent shots of the audience the play gives dispassionate readings of the equally dispassionate contemporary accounts of the brutality involved in evicting Highland crofting tenants to make way for the more profitable Cheviot, and later Blackface, sheep.
The play frequently shows the audience while offering dispassionate readings of the cold-hearted contemporary reports on the brutal evictions of Highland crofters to make room for more lucrative Cheviot and Blackface sheep.