Alec The Pole

United Kingdom | 1991

After the Second World War, a foreign soldier appears in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands. The only clue to his provenance is a Polish army badge on his ragged sleeve. The man, who calls himself "Alec", is something of an anomaly in Grantown-on-Spey, where chins wag at the slightest deviation from normality. Almost fifty years on, and "Alec the Pole" is normality personified - a pillar …