The Scotsmansis the story of a Glasgow detective investigating his own
daughter's death in Washington, D.C. Six months after the murder of
Catriona Cowan, a Scottish exchange student, her father arrives in D.C.
skeptical of the findings of an earlier police investigation. Chic
Cowan's own inquiries lead him from the deprived neighborhoods of
Southeast D.C. to the townhouses of Capitol Hill and to the suspicion
that his daughter's death is connected to an upcoming Senate election.
But the obsessed and grieving father, wrestling with sobriety, comes to
question his own sanity as he closes in on the truth.