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It was really a drug-land turf war by gangs who used ice cream vans as a front.

He's subtle, silent, often bemused.

Alan Bird witnesses how an ice cream van is attacked and destroyed by an angry competitor.

Bill Forsyth was an exceedingly strange filmmaker.

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The deaths of van-driver Andrew Boyle who had resisted being involved in drug dealing and his family happened in April 1984, four months before "Comfort and Joy" was released, and as star acknowledges, this had an impact on the film's reception: "It wasn't a great time to launch a light-hearted look at the ice-cream business in Glasgow.

This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families, the Bernardis and the Rossis, over whose ice cream vans can sell where in Glasgow.

And a very good one, I think.

Alan Bird witnesses how an ice cream van is attacked and destroyed by an angry competitor.

It begins as a story about those dim, lonely days following a break-up, and turns into a fantastical tale of the dark underworld behind ice cream vendor territorial disputes! This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families, the Bernardis and the Rossis, over whose ice cream vans can sell where in Glasgow.

But it is real, and that in itself is a wondrous achievement.

There are passages in "Comfort and Joy" which are utterly dreamlike.