The Man On The Train

An ordinary town.
A railway station.
The end of the day.
A Local train pulls in. A man gets off. A solitary figure who has never
been here before.
His name is MILAN, a disenchanted hulk of a man, as battered as the bag
hanging from his shoulder.

A pharmacy that is about to dose. Looking for aspirin to ease a raging
headache, Milan comes across MANESQUIER, a retired school teacher and older
than him.
The pharmacy's green neon light goes out.
The two men find themselves outside in the already deserted street heading
in the same direction.
The two men are complete opposites. Or at least they seem to be.
On the surface.
Wary of each other at first, they grow ever closer together. And for a very
simple reason. Each man realises that what he really always wanted is the
life of the other man.
Mannesquier, the retired man of letters, dreams of having been a man of
action, an adventurer. Milan. the man of few words and a Ute filled with
dangerous incident, dreams of peace and quiet and a nice pair of slippers.

Three days from now Milan is to hold up the Local bank.
It should be routine. Just another job. But he's on edge.
Three days from now Manesquier will undergo a triple heart-bypass.
He puts on a brave face but he's scared stiff.
Three days to get to know each other.
Three days to dream about a different life.
A life that might have been.

Three days before everything goes horribly wrong?