Bus Stop

2018, 8 minutes

The film explores the emotional journey two strangers take when they are forced to engage with each other.

Very late one evening middle-aged, middle class Rachel finds herself in a rough part of town, in a dark back street, waiting at a bus stop. The day's circumstances have brought her to this place but it's unfamiliar territory and she feels nervous and vulnerable. As Rachel sits at the bus stop she is joined by Liam. Liam is a local. And he's wired and angry and spoiling for a fight. As they wait for the bus the tension builds and Liam becomes increasingly confrontational. He goads Rachel into an uncomfortable conversation she feels unable to avoid. But what begins as a hostile provocation develops into something painful but profound, for both Liam and Rachel.

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