The Toll Collector
(2002). Rachel Johnson. República Checa-Estados Unidos. 10 minutos
In a lonely tollbooth in the middle of nowhere a young, deformed girl with sad eyes dreams of becoming a dancer. Enclosed in her cubicle she works for hours on end until she’s able to leave it unnoticed late at night. Returning home, with nothing but dancing and dreams of becoming a great dancer in her head, she dances and dances. It’s the only time of the day that she feels anything like happiness. But when the day dawns, she has to return to work and hide herself in her booth, cut off from the world, making out she’s a normal person, if anything of the sort exists. Rachel Johnson tells us in her own words this tale of loneliness and searching, of impossible or maybe possible dreams, but nevertheless of the dreams that keep the world turning and turning, moving the longer or shorter legs of all of the inhabitants on planet Earth.