It's late autumn, just before Thanksgiving, and Luna is driving the overnight run through western Nebraska when she makes an unscheduled stop at an abandoned highway shelter—a concrete structure with a bench and a payphone that hasn't worked in years. A man is sitting inside, waiting. He has no luggage, no coat, and his face seems to shift in the dim light of the dashboard. He boards the bus without a word. What unfolds over the next two hours is a story about waiting, about roads that loop, and about passengers who have been riding the same route longer than they remember. Luna doesn't know his name. She doesn't ask. But when she looks in the rearview later, his seat is empty, and the shelter is dark again. Some stops, she learns, are not on any schedule. Some passengers never really leave.