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After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. Hoping to heal, she returns to the wild beauty of Scotland's Orkney Islands where she grew up.

After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. She returns to the wild beauty of Scotland's Orkney Islands - where she grew up - hoping to heal. Adapted from the bestselling memoir by Amy Liptrot.

Rona, fresh out of rehab, returns to the Orkney Islands; a place both wild and beautiful right off the Scottish coast. After more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona - now 30 - attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. As she reconnects with the dramatic landscape where she grew up, memories of her traumatic childhood merge with more recent challenging events that have set her on the path to recovery.—olisilumea

The story revolves around Rona, who, following a ninety-day alcoholism treatment program, returns to her childhood home in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. In the midst of the islands' stunning yet isolated scenery, she attempts to start over after returning. Rona is exposed to two distinct worlds because of her parents' separation and independent lives: her mother's more religious and socially engaged circle and her father's rural, farm-centered world.

As Rona assists her father on the farm, she bears the weight of her past and loneliness. Her past life as a biology student in London, where she enjoyed the joys of independence and romance with her boyfriend, Daynin, is shown to us through a sequence of flashbacks. But these experiences were marred by her decline into alcoholism, which resulted in a troubled partnership and personal strife. When she is unable to manage her addiction and Daynin leaves her, she has a horrible attack while inebriated, which pushes her to seek assistance.

Rona's battle with addiction is far from done now that she is back in Orkney. She faces several obstacles in her quest to reintegrate into her previous life. When she takes wine from her father's abandoned glass during one of his melancholy bouts, she briefly relapses because the need to drink haunts her. Her continuous struggle with addiction is exemplified by this occurrence.

In pursuit of a new beginning, Rona accepts a position with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), where she works on the conservation of the endangered corn crack, whose cry serves as a metaphor for Rona's own quest for identity and purpose in the world. The task, which entails spending hours alone listening for the elusive call of the bird, serves both a diversion and a therapeutic exercise.

Rona travels to Papa Westray, a secluded island with a close-knit community. She faces the weather and her personal issues while living alone here. As she reconnects with nature and rediscovers her love of biology, especially by studying seaweed, the severe winter provides a kind of catharsis. Her friendship with a fellow alcoholic in recovery who owns the neighborhood grocery store serves as both a support system and a mirror for her difficulties.

Rona feels rejuvenated as spring approaches. When she finally hears the corn crack's call, which she has been trying to hear all winter, the narrative comes to a moving conclusion. Her laughing, which reflects her newly discovered optimism and fortitude, represents her slow healing and acceptance.