Recently retired, grocer Dickson McCunn decides to embark on a little walking tour in the Scottish Borders. Along the way he falls in with John Heritage, a young Englishman with a poet's heart. Together they become embroiled in a dangerous plot to kidnap an exiled Russian princess.
With the help of the local worthies and the Gorbals Die-Hards – a plucky, resourceful gang of boys from Glasgow ...