Most show the character wandering in nature, perhaps looking at a flower or some other natural curiosity.

So Ms. Mafaalani allows the stories in the movie to overlap, the characters to wander the stage freely.

"If all those dead characters are wandering round Terror Castle now, no wonder it's so hard to live in."

He likens the approach to an English television serial in which the characters wander on and off the stage, but the action flows chronologically.

Various oddball characters wander around the premises.

In the summer of 1967 an oddball character wandered into that restaurant noted for its oddball clientele.

In the beginning of The Year of the Elephant, the main character is wandering the streets after a devastating divorce.

Good stories and characters will wander through, by and by.

But more often, characters wander free - and engage one another in dizzyingly complicated dynamics.

For instance, Schubert established a musical figure to show that his character was wandering.