Rose-Lynn Harlan, aspiring country singer and single mother of two from
Glasgow, is released after a year in prison for throwing a package of
heroin over the wall into
HM Prison Cornton Vale, despite claiming that she did not know the contents. Having thus lost her job in the house band at Glasgow's Grand Ole Opry, Rose-Lynn is encouraged by her mother Marion to give up her musical dreams, to focus instead on steady work and taking care of her children, Wynonna and Lyle, whom Marion has been caring for. Rose-Lynn takes a cleaning job at Susannah's large house. Susannah's children overhear Rose-Lynn singing to herself and tell their mother. Rose-Lynn asks Susannah for money to travel to
Nashville to try to make it as a musician, but she declines. Instead, she contacts
BBC Radio presenter,
Bob Harris, sending him a recording of Rose-Lynn singing; he offers to meet her in London. Rose-Lynn convinces a judge to lift her
probationary curfew so she can travel. At
Broadcasting House, she sits in on a live performance by the visiting
Ashley McBryde. Harris encourages her to keep performing and figure out what she has to say so she can start writing her own songs. Susannah offers Rose-Lynn a performing gig at her upcoming house party, where she intends to
crowdfund Rose-Lynn's Nashville trip. Rose-Lynn asks Marion to watch the children in the week leading up to the party so she can rehearse, but Marion declines to cancel her holiday plans, so she shuttles her children around to various friends, who agree to watch them. The day before the performance, Susannah's husband gets Rose-Lynn alone and tells her he knows about her criminal conviction and she is to stop working for them after her performance. Lyle breaks his arm while briefly left unattended at home, and the doctors at the hospital say they cannot put a cast on until after Rose-Lynn's planned performance. Marion arrives to help, and Rose-Lynn begs her to stay and watch her son so she can get to the party. Marion reluctantly agrees but criticises her strongly for neglecting her family. Rose-Lynn rushes to the performance but, once on stage, breaks down immediately. She confesses to Susannah her guilt for her criminal behaviour and not being there for her children, and her belief that her conviction and having children at a young age are permanent barriers to her musical dream, then leaves. Rose-Lynn gets a job as a waitress and dedicates herself to her children. Some time later, Marion, seeing that Rose-Lynn has accepted her responsibilities, presents her with a large sum of money she has saved, enough to travel to Nashville. Rose-Lynn tries to reject it, but Marion expresses her regret about failing to accomplish her goals due to having children. Rose-Lynn travels to Nashville and learns how difficult it is to find gigs and get noticed. She sneaks on stage at the
Ryman Auditorium during a backstage tour and sings an impromptu song to the empty building. A security guard approaches her afterward, offering to introduce her to a record producer, but Rose-Lynn decides to return to Glasgow, having realised that her future lies in her home town. One year later, Rose-Lynn performs an original song at
Celtic Connections titled “Glasgow (No Place Like Home)”, receiving raucous applause. Bob Harris, Susannah, and her children are in the audience. ==Cast==