Dip a rag in the burn,

Knot it to the tree,

In its decay,

Comes the remedy.

A lone clootie tree stands between the breathing and the buried, the hurt and the healing, the forgotten and the future.

A journalist returns home, determined to unravel a Victorian mystery of a suspicious death. The history she reveals exposes secrets that had been buried for generations.

By the clootie tree, in a place meant for recovery and wellbeing, tragic forces are looming, ever-present.

This new play brings together Highland theatre-makers to tell a sorrowful story set in the Far North of Scotland, past and present.

Commissioned by Vivid Roots Collective to explore gender inequalities in medicine, emerging Highland playwright, Annie MacDonald, offers a poignant and powerful response, telling a story which reaches across centuries. The Wound, the Rag and the In-Between asks unsettling questions about the spaces between trust, belief and recovery.