This, the first play in this series, is the classical tragedy by William Shakespeare which portrays the final days of Julius Caesar, the commander and statesman who sought to become the Emperor of Rome.
Here, in this crofting community in Lewis, we have two feuding neighbouring families. An ill-feeling between them, generated in the past with little reason and continued in the present with less.
In 1940, in Barra in the Outer Hebrides, an 18-year-old woman, Flòraidh, is persuaded to leave her island home when she learns that her stepmother intends to marry her off to the local shopkeeper. She follows her enigmatic friend Lavinia to the city and changes her identity to Laura, like a butterfly, leaving her chrysalis behind, as they join the war effort.
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