Comfort and Joy
A serious comedy
A darkly comic romp through Glasgow's ice cream turf wars, blending slapstick rivalry with genuine warmth and the absurdity of small-time criminal enterprise.
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
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