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Set in the Isle of Harris, John of John is a tender and devastating story of love and religion, of a father and son, art and landscape, and the corrosive effects of living a secret life.

Cal is a young man returning home to his father and grandmother in a small village in
the Outer Hebrides. He has graduated and is out of money and his father needs him.
But when he returns he will also be drawn back into a world of suppressed emotion
and terrible secrecy that not only destroys his father but looks set to determine the
relationship between father and son. For both Cal and John, keeping their sexuality
secret threatens both their relationship and their own lives. The world is that of the
weavers of the island – isolated, intense and intimate and wild.