The Sewing Machine

It is 1911 and Jean is about to join the mass strike at the Singer factory. For her nothing will be the same again. Decades later in Edinburgh Connie sews coded moments of her life into a notebook as her mother did before her. More than 100 years after his grandmothers sewing machine was made Fred discovers a treasure trove of documents. His family history is laid out before him in a patchwork of unfamiliar handwriting and colourful seams. He starts to unpick the secrets of four generations one stitch at a time.