The Arrival of Averill

In this highly symbolic political allegory Averill is traveling through a troubled countryside amid rumors of war to visit his father He reaches a train station in a city which is paralyzed by a transportation strike and is forced to take lodgings in a bizarre unattractive town populated by seemingly malformed individuals After a while he begins to try to woo a much older woman and symbolic images of entrapment imprisonment and erotic enticement mark his adventures in this regard