A short film that was adapted from a true story.

A bus was travelling in some remote mountain area of China. The bus driver was female, her passengers were from the villages in the area, they were on their way to the city. Halfway from the journey, a young man boarded the bus. It seemed like a usual trip until their bus was hijacked by 3 robbers who got on the bus.

Armed with knifes, the robbers demanded all the passengers to surrender their valuables. Just when the crooks were about to leave the bus with their loot. They saw the bus-driver lady and found her fairly attractive. They then pulled her down the bus and gang-raped her. Some of the passengers looked away, some just looked on helplessly. The young man who had gotten on the bus earlier stood up and asked around, if anyone would go with him to save the lady. No one responded.

Eventually the young man gave up asking and went to fight the bandits alone. He was too late. The lady had already been raped. Still he singlehandedly fought the robbers but being outnumbered, he was badly beaten up. The robbers left.

The lady put on her clothes, and got ready to drive the bus away, looking at the young man with hatred in her eyes. When the young man tried to get on the bus, she closed the door and refused to let him onto the bus. badly injured, he was left in the wilderness and he watched the bus disappear.

He could not figure out why the bus left without him. Why was the lady abandon him when he was the only one who saved her? Was it because he was too late in stopping them?






















Soon, he was picked up by another lorry on its way to the city. As the lorry drove on, the young man saw at the bottom of the valley, the bus had fallen off the cliff. It was the bus that left without him. The lady driver left him behind to live.


31/12/2005 - edited to add
mayb i shd explain abit about this story, i heard it on the UFM morning show. i'm quite a loyal listener to this show that discusses current affairs. the topic of that morning was this: if we watch an injustice in progress and do not lift a hand to help, are we also helping to do the injustice?