The Switchyard is the story of a lonely machine-parts salesman who drifts into a rural bar after a bleak business trip and spends the night listening to a woman he barely understands. What begins as boredom, cheap hotel rooms, alcohol, and casual contempt slowly turns into a strange, unwanted kind of intimacy. It is a dry, melancholy story about isolation, aging, missed connection, and the small miracles of being noticed by someone, even when you wish it had been someone else.