沃尔特是麻省理工大学的教授,一年多以来,他每天回家都要乘坐下午5点22分进站的那列火车到林肯车站。每天,沃尔特总会在月台上遇见一个女人,他俩同一站等车也同一站下车,每次都会朝对方点点头,但从未说过一句话。沃尔特注意到,这个女人头上总要围着一方彩巾,他觉得女人把彩巾围得很别致,宛如人们包扎一束鲜花。一天下午,火车月台上一阵风吹过,女人的彩巾突然被吹得掀起来,一刹那, Walt, a professor at MIT, spent more than a year in his home on a daily train ride to Lincoln Station at 5.22 p.m. Every day, Walter always meets a woman on the platform. They both get off at the same stop and wait for the same stop. They nod each other for the same time, but never say a word. Walt noticed that this woman always had a colored towel around her head. He thought that the woman would have surrounded the colored towel very much like a bunch of flowers. One afternoon afternoon, a gust of wind on the train platform, a woman’s scarf suddenly was blown up, the moment,