The Isle of Coll, in the wild Atlantic Sea, is situated in the Inner Hebrides off the West Coast of Scotland. Little known, and far from the mainland. Coll is wild, a rock in the ocean 13 miles long, three miles wide, where trees struggle to grow due to high winds – where the summers are cool but sunny and the winters harsh.

This isolated community of 170 people is facing multiple threats. An ageing ferry service, The wealthy buying property at double the asking price never to set foot on the island, bolt holes in response to Covid, Brexit, a failing economy and rising social issues on the mainland, threatening the social structure of Coll.

The island is also being buffeted environmentally, fishing stocks are depleted due to commercial trawling and global overfishing. Glasgow University states that the south of the Islandwill shrink dramatically through the impacts of sea level rise, strong wave action, and coastal flooding due to climate change.

Always living on the edge will the fragile community finally give way to the pressures of the 21st century?