A Train Runs Through It-Plot

A Train Runs Through It-Plot

Late 1970’s to early 1980’s

Gus-Tyrese Gibson Gus: unwitting story hero

Alicia-Gus’s love initially reluctant on and off again love interest who falls deeply in love with Gus and marries Gus and then has a child with near the end of the story. 

D (Don)-Tom Hanks-Long-time train rider and long-term traveler who befriends Gus and protects him along his long and spontaneous journey and later on is outed as an under-cover DEA agent trying to stop a large shipment of drugs via train.

Terry-Drug Smuggler

Jessie-Hillbilly train rider caught up in drug smuggling and Terry’s not-so-smart employee.

Gus gets on a train spontaneously, and ends up as a missing person along his journey.

Gus makes lots of friends and hears a lot of stories about other people’s lives and families. Gus finds out that he has been all over the news and that there is a nation-wide search for Gus when he sees a newscast with his picture as a missing person.

Gus stops off at the first town out of state and buys some food, takes a shower and does some laundry at a truck stop nearby the railroad tracks. He also buys a lottery ticket and then gets back on the train.