Blue Black Permanent

Margaret Tait's first and only feature film about the character Barbara Thorburn, who wiles away the hours with memories of Greta, her mother, the poet. Starring Celia Imrie, Jack Shepherd and Gerda Stevenson.

Shot on location in Edinburgh and Orkney, and set in the present and in the fifties and thirties. Tells the story of a woman poet who drowned in the sea, leaving her husband and three children shellshocked and confused. The evocation of the poet's life and tragic sensibility to everything around her, and the impact of her death on her daughter, Barbara, are the central themes.