In Bus Stop, the characters come face to face with themselves in a blizzard-bound diner in a little town thirty miles west of Kansas City.

"Inge is known as an acutely insightful chronicler of human life in all its stoic desperation and bittersweet promises. He wrote of people constantly struggling to connect--to themselves, to each other, to the painful places their lives had become. His characters are not larger than life heroes; they are ordinary people, people we know, people much like ourselves. They are people who can't help wanting what everyone wants--to love and be loved, to set aside their aloneness, to truly find a home, not just for an hour or a night but for as long as it takes to find true happiness."