Ungodly Simple Story of the `Cleaner

The full-length of the video is just 1:43, but it may be as complete of a life story as anyone can imagine being told in a short film.  Hers is a simple one, a routinized one.  There is nothing that happens in the hours before she awakens, so we might as well begin at that moment of awakening.  2 AM is an ungodly time for many of us, and immediately the narrative unfolds.  Commuters are brethren, as they lean forward, banking against the wind, looking for their ride.  She is alone, though, on the bus and at work.  We don't see her journey home, because in her fatigue and sleepiness that part of her day does not exist.  Symbolically, the film seems to say, our own lives go on and she herself simply doesn't exist.  Back to bed, she is exquisitely lost to the world.  But we get more glimpses of her life story: a small bedroom, neatly laid out, modestly decorated.  And a photo of a boy, bedside.