Rainbow's End

BILLY desperately wants to get back with LIZZIE, who had sent him packing six months ago, but is thwarted once again. Coupled with the £10,000 in gambling debts he owes the notorious gangster, EDDIE MCNAB, Billy just has no luck these days. Having no way of raising the money owed in the allotted time, Billy hatches a plan to make his long suffering and oldest friend, DAVE, help him disappear. Dave, who spends his free time on his hobby of gold prospecting in the Highland wilderness, reluctantly agrees to take Billy on his next trip North. As they journey north, Dave tells of nuggets of gold worth up £50,000 that have recently surfaced. Billy fools himself into thinking that he’s going to instantly find a nugget worth thousands of pounds, pay his gambling debt and win back Lizzie. But prospecting for gold needs a person to be hard working and lucky, and Billy is neither. Billy finds out the hard way that when the worm turns it has teeth. The normally passive Dave asserts himself and puts a stunned Billy well and truly in his place. When Dave discovers that he’s gay Billy reacts badly. Although immediately regretting it, it’s too late and he is shunned by Dave and his new friends as they run him out of town. Out on his own and in the wilderness Billy experiences extreme prejudice as he meets a posh shooting-party who have little regard for anyone but themselves. Unknown to Billy however, Eddie and his right hand man, MALCOLM, are in hot pursuit with a mission to violently punish Billy. But Eddie and Malcolm will also go on a journey of discovery where their own dysfunctional relationship and masculine identity are pushed to the maximum with devastating consequences.