Leon and Gogo Thabby go back 300 years to discover what life was like for a child living as a servant boy in a grand castle. Leon and Gogo Thabby dress up in fancy clothes and Thabby takes them to a special place to learn about a boy called Scipio, who came to Scotland from Africa. Together, they find out about the jobs Scipio would have done in the castle, the food he would have eaten, the music he would have heard and the new skills he learned. They discover that life in Scotland was very different from Scipio's life in Africa.