Passing through where you've never been before, you'll be staying the night, for a hitch-hiker you kindly picked up for company on the long country road has been murdered. A haunting short story of a young woman's search for identity. Perhaps the loneliest crowded place on earth . A place where everyone claims to be innocent, and yet, one man just may be. His dreams fade as he is surrounded with this uncomfortable reality.
Hope is hard to hold on to.
And then, one day, a new prisoner arrives who carries the knowledge of his innocence . . . In a desolate country house another man seeks out his destiny with a ghost who cannot rest. On a small Texas farm at the turn of the century, a Swedish immigrant asks for work and begins his new life. Through no fault of his own, he causes the downfall of his new found employer. We see how a young girl's descriptive narrative fuels the imagination of her attentive listener in perhaps the best known of Saki's stories, and studied in most of our schools.