 Content: Thomas is thirty years old but mentally on the level of a five-year-old. He lives with his father in a lonely gate-keeper s house. The boy, unpredictable and vigorous, is too much for the father, who, himself, has had many disappointments in life. But Thomas has still one hope: that one of the passing trains may stop and take Thomas and his mother to the seaside. He doesn t know that no train will ever stop at the house and his mother died a long time ago. One day, however, a train stops and a woman gets off...