Mildred Penniwink, unpredictable, quirky, and bits and pieces of every woman, drives a public bus in Myers Junction, a small but charming town quintessentially part of the Midwestern landscape. Our first glimpse is of a woman in crisis, denying a tragedy she carries in some protected corner of her soul, revealed only through an unexpected confrontation with a gang of thugs riding and vandalizing her bus. The audacity of her response is shocking and...