Elspeth Scobie is not a happy woman. Her tenants are late with their rents, and her assistant is leaving to go home to the islands and get married. For Elspeth, money is not to be spent on wasteful things such as repairs, coal, weddings and certainly not Christmas! Will a night of disturbed sleep change her mind? This re-telling of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, set in Glasgow, Scotland in the 1930s, brings a refreshing twist to a familiar tale.