The Night Ferry
An illustrated story by Atlas & Ash · Mystery · Realistic · All ages · Turkish, English
Also in: Türkçe
On the last ferry, an unclaimed suitcase begins to sing.
Selin, a nurse heading home from her night shift, hears a song coming from an old suitcase on the bench across from her on the last ferry. Yusuf Bey, the tea server, says the suitcase is there every Thursday. Selin takes it to the address written on it, the Kuzguncuk pier, where she comes face to face with Nermin Hanım, who has been waiting for forty years, and with a promise everyone on the ferry has kept secret.
Characters
- Selin (Nurse): A twenty-nine-year-old nurse going home after a night shift.
- Yusuf Bey (Ferry tea server): The ferry's tea server for thirty years.
- Nermin Hanım (The woman on the pier): An elegant woman in her eighties who comes to the pier every Thursday night.
Episode 1: The Unclaimed Suitcase
The last ferry. An unclaimed suitcase on the bench opposite. A song rises from inside it.
The midnight ferry. The last crossing.
Selin: Is this suitcase... singing?
Yusuf Bey: Every Thursday, the same suitcase, the same song. I've never seen its owner.
Episode 2: The Woman on the Pier
The address on the suitcase leads Selin to the Kuzguncuk pier. Someone is waiting.
Selin: There's an address on it. Kuzguncuk.
Nermin Hanım: I've met this ferry every Thursday for forty years.
Nermin Hanım: My captain's song... Was it you, Yusuf?
Yusuf Bey: The captain made me promise, madam.