Development
The Long Game
Road to Calum
Grand Restore Auto
In Production
Harrigan Mini Series
People, Politics, & Planes
Releasing
If I Were You
Harrigan
Sparks and Embers
Catalogue
Bait Room
In pre-production.
Plot Summary
Set in the 1970’s –80’s on a remote island in the
Western Isles of Scotland, the story of one man’s
fi ght to save his community, its identity and way of
life. A crofter and local lighthouse keeper named
Calum builds a 2 mile road through ‘impossible’
terrain single-handedly over ten years. A vision and
crusade all the more remarkable for a man of 60
years old.
This fi lm is not just about building a road, but a
man’s fi ght against the elements, bureaucracy,
government, family and friends, embracing
pride, integrity, identity and achievement against
impossible odds. The harsh realities of survival,
and the importance of love and honour, which can
triumph to bind people and dreams together.
His remote community needs a road, but the
council refuse to build one, so he buys a 19th
Century Road Making Manual, then, taking up pick
and shovel, and the odd stick of dynamite, sets
about hewing a two mile road into the granite cliff
face for more than ten years. This mind blowing
task creates major confl ict with the authorities,
a highly sensitive area of the Western Isles of
Scotland. After years of struggle ‘Calum’s Road’
is hailed as a wonder of civil engineering. Though
Calum and his wife were the only two people left
living in the village when he fi nished it, today the
area is thriving idyllic life for families, crofters,
bringing together sustainable living in a world that
has come full circle.
Based on the true-life story of Calum MacLeod of
the Isle Raasay.