The Passengers

The new Saint DenisBobigny streetcar picks up and drops off commuters in an alltoobrief transit of their lives Among the regular riders is a woman who is both spectator and guide she introduces comments on ponders and catalyzes the sometimes vain sometimes serious preoccupations of her fellow travelers who for the moment are rushing headlong toward their destiny The commuters and their observer have double lives Once they step off this streetcar the reallife dramas begin Each has his or her style of living or dying