The Iona of the title is both the green island off the west coast of Scotland,
where the film was photographed; and also my infant daughter Iona Patrice
Cooper - born August 8, 2004 and died November 22, 2004.

"Time never was, Time is not.
Thus I heard the grasses whisper,
the green lips of the wind that chants the blind oblivious rune of Time,
far in that island-sanctuary that I shall not see again.
Time never was, Time is not.
O Time that was! O Time that is!"

from "The Two Eternities" - Fiona MacLeod

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FIRST MINUTE OF THE FILM IS SILENT