Scheme Birds

2019 • Directed by

Ellen Fiske

Documentary

A coming-of-age story set in a world of pigeons and violence

As her adolescence gives way to the obligations of motherhood, troubled Gemma matures in Motherwell, her Scottish hometown, heavily dependent on the steel industry. Unfortunately for her, her hedonistic way of understanding the world does not fit in with the philosophy of the rest of the villagers, so trouble soon follows.