Fleshmarket

It is Edinburgh, 1822, and young Robbie is eight years old when he witnesses his mother''s pain and subsequent death from an operation - without anaesthetic - to remove a tumour from her breast at the hands of Dr Knox. Haunted by this terrible event, Robbie, his hapless father and baby sister Essie attempt to move on with their lives. But when Robbie''s father loses all their money and disappea...