White Widow

Jack T. Oliver is a Trailways bus driver on the route from Houston to Corpus Christi. He is several weeks away from the master operator badge, which commemorates his years of service and experience, when he meets his white widow--a beautiful woman who rides his bus each Friday. Jack's fantasies about this woman interfere with his job and his marriage, and eventually reach the level of obsession. The White Widow is imbued with the offbeat lore of the bus lines, and Lehrer offers a poignant portrait of a career driver's interior life.