It all started, back in the spring of 2002, with a feature on Newsnight Scotland about the recently opened Dungavel Detention Centre in near Strathaven. I'd recently bought a camera, and I had a feeling that I like to try doing something other than just taking pictures of friends and family, the surrounding landscape etc, but other than vague ideas I didn't really have any specific subject in mind.

I'd found the Newsnight article disturbing. Why were people who had committed no crime being locked up in Scotland in this prison - which our government likes to call a 'detention centre'. This prison was different, it housed children as well as adults, nor did there seem to be any time limit for which a person, or persons, could be locked up for. And what was it, what was this terrible thing that these people had done? All they were doing was trying to find a future, a little hope, fleeing the death, persecution, violence, trafficking, poverty and war that Martin touches on in his introduction.

I noted down the name of the fella featured in the clip, and the following day I made some phone calls. I couldn't get his phone number so I left messages here and there, and waited, and waited for the phone to ring. About a month later Jim Henry, the fella in the clip called me, and unwitting I set out on my journey.....................