A beloved star of stage and screen, Alan Cumming's life and career have been shaped by a complex and dark family past, full of troubled memories which he kept buried away.

But then an unexpected phone call from his long-estranged father brought the pain of the past hurtling into the present, and unravelled everything he thought he knew about himself.

This is both a memoir of his childhood in Scotland, and an investigation into his family history which would change him forever.