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Sammy awakes on a Sunday morning propped up against some railings in a Glasgow street, with his head pounding. He is wearing someone else's old trainers and wonders where his shoes are. He struggles to remember how he got there, but can't recall anything clearly. He approaches a group of men who he initially thinks are tourists but then recognizes as policemen, and asks them for money to get home. The police are irritated by Sammy and tell him go away. He punches one of them before running off, so they pursue him and beat him up.

Later Sammy wakes up on a bunk in a police cell, with bruised ribs from the beating. He falls asleep again and when he next awakes he discovers that his eyesight has been lost, apparently as a result of the beating from the police...