A seven year old girl is standing in pouring rain, soaking wet, waiting for her father who is drinking in some bar. She becomes prey to the whims and vancies of passing strangers.
A young boy lives in a dark, world of rain until he discovers a yellow umbrella that emits sunlight. The townspeople, led by Colonel Captain, attempt to destroy the young boy and his different yellow umbrella. They succeed, but not completely.
Photographed through the windshield of a Vancouver city bus and edited according to the rhythms of the bus' windshield wiper, the film transforms the linear narrative of the bus ride into a temporal construction that can be described as cubist. The effect of the cutting strategy on the actual...
