This was the first film of Mani Kaul, now of course widely admired for his films and also a well-known painter and music scholar. An adaptation of a story by the modern Indian novelist Mohan Rakesh, it tells of a woman in a Punjab village who daily makes lunch for her bus-driver husband, walks it the two miles to his bus route, and waits, sometimes for hours, to deliver it. This is almost her only contact with her husband to whom she is nevertheless strangely, traditionally devoted. One day, a farmer molests the woman's younger sister, and she fails to deliver the lunch. The film renders the consequences of this major interruption in the routine of the husband. Set mostly at the desolate bus stop, against a barren landscape in the plains of Punjab, the narrative is propelled by memories, fears, and fantasies in the woman's mind; past, present, and future are merged. Note: Our print of this largely visual film is without subtitles, English synopsis provided.