Young Adam

Based on the novel of the same name, this drama tells the story of a young man called Joe who drifts between a career as a writer and working as a hired hand on a barge. The complicated story of Joe's life is told in a series of flashbacks as his present life working on a barge operating out of Glasgow becomes difficult as he embarks on a series of affairs with the barge owner and her family. Joe's past is revealed after the body of a woman he once knew is pulled from the river.