Carla's Song

Love can't conquer all in this leisurely tale of romance between a Scottish bus driver and a traumatized Nicaraguan refuge. For quick-tempered malcontent George (Robert Carlyle), rebellion is letting indigent passengers sneak a free ride on his bus and giving the finger to his bourgeois bosses at the transit authority. He meets Carla (Oyanka Cabezas) when she gets caught riding without a ticket, and refuses to let her slip out of his life. Why? It's hard to tell whether he's smitten with her exotic beauty or with the fact that she's destitute, displaced, troubled and conspicuously not interested in getting involved with him. But his persistent pursuit wears her dow...