Editing I Know Where I'm Going! (section)

==Plot==
Joan Webster is a 25-year-old, [[upper middle class]] Englishwoman with an ambitious, independent spirit, who always "knows where she's going". She travels from her home in [[Manchester]] to the isle of Kiloran in the [[Hebrides]] to marry Sir Robert Bellinger, a very wealthy, much older industrialist.

When bad weather postpones the final leg of her journey (the boat trip to Kiloran), she is forced to wait it out on the [[Isle of Mull]], among a community of people whose values are quite different from hers. There she meets Torquil MacNeil, a [[Royal Navy]] officer trying to go home to Kiloran while on [[shore leave]]. She also meets some of the residents, such as the boatman Ruairidh Mhór, the eccentric [[falconry|falconer]] Colonel Barnstaple, and the poor but proud Catriona Potts, a friend of Torquil's who takes them in for the night.

The next day, on their way to catch a bus to [[Tobermory, Mull|Tobermory]] to use the radio, Joan and Torquil come upon the ruins of [[Moy Castle]]. Joan wants to look inside, but Torquil refuses to enter. When she reminds him that the terrible curse associated with it only applies to the [[laird]] of Kiloran, he reveals that ''he'' is the laird; Bellinger is only renting his island. On the bus, the locals, unaware of Joan's identity, recount disparaging stories about Bellinger.

In Tobermory, Joan and Torquil use the radio, and Torquil gets two hotel rooms. When they go into the hotel's restaurant, she asks him to sit at a different table. As the bad weather worsens into a full-scale gale, Torquil spends more time with Joan, who becomes torn between her ambition and her growing attraction to him. The two attend a [[ceilidh]] celebrating a couple's diamond wedding anniversary; the three bagpipers hired to play at Joan's wedding perform. Torquil translates the song "Nut-Brown Maiden" for Joan, emphasising the line "You're the maid for me." Despite Joan's hesitancy, Torquil persuades her to dance.

Desperate to salvage her carefully laid plans, Joan convinces Ruairidh Mhór's young assistant, Kenny, to attempt the crossing for £20. Unable to talk Joan out of the highly dangerous trip, Torquil invites himself aboard after Catriona tells him that Joan is running away from him. En route, the boat is caught in the [[Gulf of Corryvreckan|Corryvreckan whirlpool]], but Torquil restarts the flooded engine just in time. The trio return safely to Mull.

Finally, the weather clears. Before going their separate ways Torquil asks Joan if she would somewhere, sometime have the pipers play "Nut-Brown Maiden". Joan then asks Torquil for a parting kiss. After Joan leaves, Torquil enters Moy Castle and finds the inscription of the curse placed centuries earlier on Torquil's ancestor who had stormed the castle and captured his unfaithful wife and her lover. He had the lovers bound together and cast into the water-filled well/dungeon, which had a stone just big enough for one person to stand on. When the lovers' strength finally gave out, they dragged one another down into the water. Before she died, the woman cursed Kiloran and every future MacNeil of Kiloran: "If he shall ever cross the threshold of Moy never shall he leave it a free man. He shall be chained to a woman to the end of his days and shall die in his chains." From the battlements, Torquil sees Joan marching towards him, preceded by the three pipers playing "Nut-Brown Maiden". The couple meet in the castle and embrace. "[[I Know Where I'm Going (folk song)|I Know Where I'm Going]]" is sung as the end credits roll.