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...