Young Adam is a 2003 neo-noir erotic drama film written and directed by David Mackenzie and starring Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, Ewan Stewart and Emily Mortimer. The film is based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Alexander Trocchi.

Plot

In 1954 Scotland, shiftless young drifter Joe Taylor works on a coal barge which operates from Glasgow, on the River Clyde, along the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals to Edinburgh. He shares the cramped on-board living quarters with its owners and operators, husband and wife Les and Ella Gault, and their young son Jim.