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The narrator inexplicably finds himself in a grim and joyless city, the " grey town ", which is either hell or purgatory depending on how long one stays there.

He eventually finds a bus for those who desire an excursion to some other place ( and which eventually turns out to be the foothills of heaven ).

He enters the bus and converses with his fellow passengers as they travel.

When the bus reaches its destination, the passengers on the bus — including the narrator — are gradually revealed to be ghosts.

Although the country is the most beautiful they have ever seen, every feature of the landscape ( including streams of water and blades of grass ) is unyieldingly solid compared to themselves: it causes them immense pain to walk on the grass, and even a single leaf is far too heavy for any to lift.