Ray left the northern Scotland years ago to start a new life down south. With his best friend, he returns to where it all started – to Chaimig, the man who loved him as a son and to the memory of a time when promises where kept. “A truly impressive Traverse debut from a dramatist full of skill and courage, and that deep sense of dramatic structure that some writers struggle a whole lifetime to learn.” Wrote the Scotsman after the original performance of The Traverse.