The Gaze

On a late-night train, a blind beggar asks for alms. The eight passengers in the carriage all avert their gaze, each preoccupied with their own concerns. But when the beggar drops behind him a crumpled fifty-dollar note, eyes start to falter. Tension breaks out into a brawl just as the train announces its arrival at the next station. It is at that moment that the beggar makes an ironic re-entrance, but this time the passengers’ gaze are transfixed onto him, no longer ashamed to hide their suspicion about his identity. What will be the consequence of their decisions, driven by blind greed?