The White Bus

A nameless girl leading a seemingly dull life, is interrupted by periodic flights of fantasy involving suicide and recreations of paintings. Between these fantasies are the details of her real life, especially as she begins a journey home to visit her family. She encounters a wide variety of people -- a teen-ager exceedingly angry at his losing rugby team, a young man who proposes marriage, a lord mayor who enjoys feeling her leg -- as she travels to locations ranging from a community center and a public library to a natural history museum and a civil defense demonstration. Along the way, the girl maintains the appearance of passivity, even when events become quite surreal, as when all of her traveling companions turn into human dummies during the civil defense drill.