Flora stands on the hospital roof, smoking. The snow falls. Her shift is over, but it won't let her go. In fragments, she relives her overly long night shift on a chronically understaffed ward. Memories are unclear. Situations blur together. Faces and voices appear and disappear. She remembers lying so convincingly that she became afraid of herself. Flora holds other people's lives in her hands, yet she is simultaneously caught between her own good intentions and the pressured healthcare system. On this fateful night shift, the pressure becomes too much. Patients, relatives, doctors, receptionists, and porters pull at her from all sides. Flora lets go, as responsibility, her own self-image and human lives slip from her grasp.

When Margaret enters a Glasgow gay bar for the very first time, she discovers a whole new world through the spiky bartender, chaotic kitchen porter, and a mysterious package waiting to be opened. Trapped inside by a thunderstorm, the three go on a cocktail-fuelled journey of self-discovery through music, painting, and the ancient mystical art of leaving a voicemail.

Flora MacDonald smuggled Bonnie Prince Charlie “Over the sea to Skye” but what happened to her next? In this new musical about one of Scotland's most famous daughters, Flora is a reluctant heroine caught up in the power games of the men around her, as she braves imprisonment, fame, famine, migration and war in her lifelong struggle to keep her family safe.