This short film starts off in a train station with a older lady(wealthy looking) carries a couple bags. She's walking around and drops her belongings. A black man tries to help her pick it up but she tries to brush him away. You can tell she is trying to catch a train cause of the tickets in her hand, and later you realize that she misses this train. As she walks around the train station, she notices a homeless man and you can see the disgust in her facial expressions. You can tell she isn't fond of his type. While she waits for her next train she goes into a cafe in the station and orders a salad. But after she sits down with her salad she remembers that she forgot a fork. After she gets up to grab one she sees a homeless looking man sitting down with a salad. She immediately assumes that he has her salad and tries to take it. He quietly sits there and continues eating the salad but also sharing with her, without saying a word. This goes on for a couple minutes. He even goes to get the both of them coffee. Realizing her train is leaving soon she gets up and leaves the cafe. She is walking to her train when she realizes she forgot her bags and frantically runs back to the cafe to get them. Sitting next to her bags is her salad. She had assumed the homeless man had taken she salad when he was just in a different booth with his own salad! Her reaction is just to laugh about the whole situation. The sad part about this film is what happens next. When she gets her bags and walks out of the cafe for the second time, she sees a man begging for money in the station and completely ignores him. After her whole situation with the homeless man in the cafe, she still doesn't have a change of mind. You would think after experiencing something like this, she would have a different mindset with the next homeless man she encountered? She isn't able to return a kind gesture after the gesture she had just experienced. How sad is that? What does this tell about our culture?
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