Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
Alan and Mary are pretty miserable together and split up. As a very presentable Glaswegian photographer, Alan soon has chances to find consolation elsewhere, but more and more thinks of Mary. She, however, seems a lot less keen to try again.
A dramatised account of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, performed and broadcast live on Scottish Television on 29th November 1967 to mark STV's tenth anniversary.