Glasgow’s Southside is scorching in unaccustomed heat and the neighbourhood teeters on the edge, simmering and riot-ready.

In the city's docklands, a taxi driver murders his family in a bloody daylight massacre.

A bitter dispute between a union and a politically-connected business family escalates into firebomb attacks and violence.

Meanwhile, racist gangs organise violent confrontation after a white girl is raped and a Muslim woman attacked with acid in apparent retaliation...police and politicians struggle to prevent the tension turning into war on the streets.

And Stevie McCabe isn't a player in any of this. He's four hundred miles away, in London, planning to work for a bank, bird-watching and learning how to play Go.

He's four hundred miles away...for now.