In this autobiography, Murray McLauchlan writes about growing up in Toronto in the fifties, rising to prominence as a songwriter in 1968 with "Child's song", and the three decades of his career as a singer-songwriter in Canada. He tells the story of his return to the working-class town of Paisley in Scotland to visit the very room in which he has been born, and his visits to the ruined McLauchlan castle and the battlefields at Culloden in an attempt to find his own place within a long and tumultuous clan history.