The story of a man named Waldo Jeffers, who misses his girlfriend Marsha Bronson desperately, but hasnt enough money to visit her in “the excepted fashion”. One day he decides to ship himself to her, inside a box…

Lou Reed wrote this story while studying creative writing at Syracuse University. The words were later used as the lyrics for the Velvet Underground song “The Gift” (released on White Light/White Heat).

narrator AARON HEMPHILL
waldo jeffers ANGUS ANDREW
marsha bronson VANESSA DE WITTE
sheila klein BROOKE VERMILLION
mr. moustache JULIAN GROSS

music composed by HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR

directed by MARKUS WAMBSGANSS

based on a story by LOU REED