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 presents unemotional portrayals of the indifferent accounts from contemporaries about the inhumane eviction of Highland crofting tenants, who were replaced by profitable Cheviot and later Blackface sheep.