\begin{quotation}
\noindent
The plot of a typical narrative movie is a set of transformations
which operate on a series of disequilibriums with the net result
that some sort of narrative equilibrium emerges.  Heath writes:
\begin{quotation}
\noindent
A narrative action is a series of elements held in a relation of
transformation such that their consecution---the movement of the
transformation from the ones to the others---determines a state
$S'$ different to an initial state $S$ \ldots
\end{quotation}

One of Heath's presiding metaphors in describing the work of
movie narrative is `getting things back into place.'
\end{quotation}

