"Have you fed Sýrrý Bey his soup yet?" "It crossed my mind yesterday:" "We can rent the other sections with the income we could have the plan completed." "Give up this dream, for God's sake." "Is it easy to have it finished?" "And why?" "It is a lot of trouble as it is." "How about Sýrrý Bey's soup, have you fed him yet?" "Do listen to my words, my dear, we can at least take care of the repairs in this way." "Today I went into the room above the staircase." "How did you open the door?" "That's how I see the solution to this problem." "The solution to what?" "For God's sake, which solution?" "Who will rent this run-down place?" "Who will bother?" "And why?" "Do you think we are still the granddaughters of Kadir Pasha." "Let's rent a small apartment for you on the island." "We'll take better care of my father too." "Wouldn't that be a pity to leave such a big house?" "And what Aunt Seza says is not such an impossible thing!" "Aunt, Mrs. Ihsan did not die in this house." "Aunt, Mrs. Ihsan left." "Aunt, my mother left." "It must be told, my little girl." "That story too must be told." "It hurt my father that neither I nor Neyir got married." "I told him "I will look after you for me who can be a better companion than you. "" "Neyir became an English teacher." "But Servet, your father was the one who hurt Sýrrý Bey most." "He spent his entire life without leaving his room..." "My dear Servet..." "The neighbors talked about his madness." "My father could not stand it." "In fact, that's the reason why they married your mother to Servet." "Nothing changed after they were married." "He still wouldn't leave his room." "Your mom quickly understood it." "She didn't complain." "She also withdrew to her room." "Then we lost Servet." "Sýrrý Bey was more moved by your mother than he felt for his dead son." ""This young girl's sin is also upon us" he said." "SlrI Bey said that but your mother was something else." "She said, "I'm happy, you cannot imagine How happy I am"." "A little smile on her lips." "Brightness about her face, exactly like you." "Exactly like me." "Of course, all stories must be told." "Then Sýrrý Bey asked for your mother in his room." ""She will feed me my soup", he said." "Your mom who slept neither in the morning nor at night silently carried soup to Sýrrý Bey." "Then Sýrrý Bey began to have soup in the mornings and in the evenings." "He wanted neither me nor Neyir, only her at his side." "Of course I saw it." "Then everybody in the house, got your mom's sickness." "Around those times your mother got pregnant." "A little after your father's death." "Then, that morning, silently, smiling as ever" "She was dressed all in white." "First, I saw her praying." "Then she took off from the shore in a boat." "Then she took off from the shore in a boat." "Why?" "Nobody knows." "It is not heard, Aunt." "None of it is heard." "Of course it must be told." "You have no idea." "You have no idea." "You have no idea." "My aunt has always told me about this house." "She goes on and on." "How does she come up with so much to tell?" "Why do you keep on telling me?" "I have already seen everything." "Yekta." "Couldn't you find another place to sleep?" "What do you have?" "Come on my dear, come on." "In my dream I was feeding soup to Sýrrý Bey." " What does it mean, Aunt?" " Come on, get up now." "If you sleep in the street, you will dream of such silly things." "Aunt Neyir, look at this." "What does it mean?" "Pull yourself together." "You're a big girl now." "Don't talk like this." "I'll ask Aunt Seza for the meaning of this dream." "Of course, it is her job!" "I left something downstairs." "I'll come back." "My dear, tell me, are you happy living in this house?" "Silly." "Come on throw it." "Let's put her in a boarding school." "I have begun to worry a lot about her." "She will too go crazy in this tomb of a house." "Especially your indifference makes me mad." ""In my dream" she said, "I was feeding soup to Sýrrý Bey." "What does it mean, aunt" she said." "Recently one day she said:" ""In my dream I saw my mother getting on a green boat down by the pier." "Did my mother leave in that boat?"" "I told her, "What leaving, what boat?"" "Even at this age, she is after the dead." "The boat was green." "We are losing the child, don't you realize?" "So, I'm finished." "I'll take her with me to the Island this weekend." "For the weekend only." "Nuran, drop by on your way back." "I'll introduce you to Yekta." "He's one of my students." "He's an intelligent, well-mannered boy." "You can go around the island together." "Well think about it here you could be together with people of your age." "You'll finally get rid of old people, of that run-down house." "Come on, Nuran." "How are you?" "She is Yekta." "The seagull with the head of a child." "A boy told me." "There is one on the island." "It does not appear to every eye, maybe it will appear to the camera." "I wonder how big its head is." "Sýrrý Bey was so young when he undertook to build this house." "He spent his childhood in a mansion at Çamllca which his father could not complete." "To despite his father he always said their disagreement was political." "He began to build this house instead of completing the mansion." "He tried to finish it until the day he couldn't get up." "A tiny little needle." ""In this city, everything is left half-finished" he said." "Everything rots before it is finished." "This house will also get older before it is completed." "He had a fear of nails, to the rusty nails of the half finished mansion." "Then this was transformed into a fear of needles." "He was afraid that a needle which would accidentally get into his body would move around and pierce his heart." "Who knows maybe he still fears it." "He used to tell us "I don't want any needles in this house"" ""All right, Sýrrý Bey", we would say." "He wouldn't believe us." "He used to scream "like Bilal, in the end I will die like Bilal. "" "Like Bilal." "Auntie, I saw her." "I saw my mother." "She passed by in a boat." "In your dream." "No, in the boat." "After the decision to put Yekta in a boarding school our English sessions were more frequent." "Yekta says she still dreams about her mother." "It upset me very much when she adds that she also sees her mother." "Dreaming child!" "Since then I have brought her to the island every weekend." "I began to make her memorize Blake's "Infant Sorrow"." "We ordered Yekta a school uniform of dark grey terylene." "Annick will sew it." "Nuran, at night, my mother passes by the house in a boat." "Nuran, I saw my mother." "Like in my dream." "She passes by so closely, the oars are audible." "Aunt Neyir does not believe." "Neither Aunt Seza." "Now I know why Sýrrý Bey does not sleep." "Nuran, my mother smiled at me." "I won't leave my mother and go to boarding school." "I won't go." "Believe me." "Right?" "How can I leave it, Neyir?" "Don't you understand how can I leave it?" "While there are three large incomplete floors under my father." "These are games my dear and now, you have included Yekta in the game." "I'm not yet satisfied with it." "And you know the members of the family had not been satisfied yet with this house." "My father is still struggling but, he cannot pass on the other side." "We don't know what he wants to tell." "He cannot die, not to tell but to hide." "Because of the fear, of his sins." "Against Servet, his daughter in law, Yekta." "What statement that is!" "Yekta is not my father's sin." "How can you say it?" "My father, thin and strong." ".certainly knows better than we do." "Life is full of mysteries that he still has not told us." "This house has grandeur we cannot see." ".the limits of which we cannot imagine." "We can't see." "Like Sýrrý Bey's soup." ".the fifth floor, the second tower, ground garden" "And of my sin." "Sush, be silent!" "It may escape." "Ok, I got it." " Hold it by the neck." " I can't!" "It clawed my hand." "Ok, I got it." "My hand!" "Thus it leads here it leads to itself." "So, this way does not lead anywhere." "This road keeps turning around itself around the island." "If this is the beginning of the road it's the end in the meantime." "But if you head for the hills, it is all different." "You are looking for the seagull with the child head?" " What about the child?" " I'm looking." "Did you get used to the island?" "I won't get used to it." "Do you know me, but who are you?" "Here, with all these seagulls, I consider myself acquainted." "I'm the guardian of this deserted monastery." "...And he said "O men we have been taught the language of the birds." "And we were graced with a lot of amenities." "Undoubtedly this is a clear superiority"." "Armies were gathered of djinns, men and birds." "And these were dispersed into companies." "One day, later on day he will gather them all together and tell them: "What is the answer given to you?"" "...They will say, "We have no knowledge only you know the invisible, only you"." "This got stuck again!" "What got stuck, darling?" "Don't you hear the clock?" "I couldn't manage it, where's Yekta?" "Yekta!" "Yekta!" "Yekta!" "Yekta come stop this clock." "Come on, Yekta!" "I see you anyway." "She is not here?" "Come over." "Let's drink our coffee now." "Liar, I saw you a moment ago." "Where did you see me?" "I was out." "You saw someone?" "And you still don't believe me!" "Don't believe me." "...And of course those curtains they were hanging on corniches of bronze." "Now only the corniches are left." "Covered with fly droppings." "Of course the tables, the coffee tables the color of hay, a darker shade covered with various colored embroideries." "Embroideries..." "Come on, give me your cup." "Miss Neyir worries very much about Yekta." "What is so weird about this girl?" "It is Neyir herself who finds her weird." "She wants her to become like herself." "She wants her to leave, forget this house." "Yekta is attached to this house as much as I am." "That's what frightens Neyir." "She's suspended between here and the island." "Between Neyir and me between the third and fourth floors like this house, she is suspended between Sýrrý Bey and her mother." "Like all of us, she is, too." "Why should she be weird?" "Are we weird?" "And even if we are" "Again those birds with large wing" "And this time they can be seen more clearly." "Every night I'm praying:" ""Don't leave me alone mother"." "She smiles." "I'm still afraid that she won't come again." "I see her in all my dreams." "Aunt Neyir says "Can one love the person she doesn't know?"" ""She's my mother" I say." ""The mother I see every night"." "Aunt Seza says "it's all in your dreams"." "Aunt Neyir cannot even stand that these are dreams." ""Leave the dead woman in peace you have turned the poor soul into a fairy", she says." "My tongue hurts." "Do people get herpes on their tongues?" "I will take you to the house, secretly." "You too will see my mother." "My tongue hurts a lot." "A swelling at the very tip." "A knot on my tongue." "Spit so it will fall down." " A swelling at the very tip." " A knot on my tongue." "Spit so it will fall down." " A knot on my tongue." " Spit so it will fall down." "A swelling at the very tip." "Spit so it will fall down." " A knot on my tongue." " Spit so it will fall down." "If anyone sees in a dream, a needle piercing his hand to interpret it in a fortunate fashion or not the exact hand and the exact finger which the needle pierced should be specified." "It was my mother's hand that was bleeding." "A tiny drop of blood was coming out." "She smiled." ""Don't worry she said, "It will not stain in the water." "Anyone who sees a dead in his dream" " That's not it." " I am reading you what is written." "That's not it." "Don't you want to learn the meaning of the dream?" "I want to, but these are not like what I saw." "Come on." "I will come back just after the clock strikes eleven." "Don't leave this room." "Come on." "She'll pass from there." " Until that hour, I'll..." " You'll see." "Be patient." "30, 31, 32 33, 34, 35, 36" "Where's Yekta?" "I have good news for her." "Welcome, 38, 39, 40- Sush!" "What are you doing?" "I'm measuring." "I'm trying to estimate the expenses to have the adjacent section completed." "Yekta!" "Yekta!" "Patience!" "I have good news for you." "I have made them admit you to the school." "You'll be studying at my high school." "Do you hear me?" "Among the pines." "Twelve years!" "I spent twelve years in that paradise." "What a view it has." "Come and look." "Look right ahead." "Come on." "Can you see?" "No!" "The green hill right above it." "Look carefully at the greenery." "You see the roof of a building." "Right there." "But from now on we must study English harder." "You should not relax now that you are admitted." "We'll continuously practice." "What is it my baby?" "Are you afraid?" "Plus, you will be liked in that school." " I'm not afraid." " So?" "I don't want." " What don't you want?" " Go there." "Look my dear, you are not going to live in this ruin with ghosts until the end of your life." "Is there anything better than school?" "You will make friends." "You'll have teachers." "You'll learn about the world, science." "My dear child all these worries will go away." "Do you remember my dear Neyir?" "Once Suzi had cologne called "Chypre"?" "What a nice, ambiguous scent it had." "But you saw." "Nothing came out, complete darkness." "Even if a camera did not see, you saw." " There's nothing in the pictures." " You saw." "I called you over so, that you would see." "That you would see my mother." "Why bother so much?" "Is showing more important?" "Can you show everything you see?" "Tell me, can you show everything you see?" "Can you take photographs of your dreams?" "Is the light sufficient?" "Can you focus?" "Do you know how to see?" "And why will you show?" "To communicate?" "With whom?" "Have you ever been left out of touch with yourself?" "I always see things which cannot be shown." "See, only see." "Please!" "Look at those photographs in order to see." "Do you see Nuran?" "Do you see my mother?" "All these are also in Sýrrý Bey's eyes." "Sýrrý Bey is my grandfather." "But I cannot go into his room." "He is also in the dreams." "The dreams then, interpretations of dreams." "Aunt Nükhet's book says too that every dream definitely has an interpretation." "But" "Never look for the interpretations of dreams." "Don't look for their reasons either." "Dreams are for dreams." "The bird you see in your dream is the bird in your dream." "Birds in dreams do not resemble these birds." "They speak a different tongue." "Dreams are for dreams." "Come on, get out!" "Where's that girl?" "You should listen to her recite the poem I made her learn by heart." "Yekta!" "Yekta!" "Yekta!" "Yekta!" "What are you doing in that room?" "What's that you're stuffing in your pocket?" "Yekta!" "Come here!" "Listen, if you go in there once more." "You'll never enter that room." "I don't want to see you there." "Come on now!" "Recite your poem to your Aunt." "Come on darling." "Aunt Nükhet and Rahime are curious about your poem." "Come on." "Leave that dirty animal." "Oh no, not like that." "Get on this to recite." "One should recite poetry from a high chair." "Let us sit around you like this." "Rahime, come over here." "Come on!" "Once is enough my dear." "She's reading it once more." "And now the translation." "Yekta, shut up!" "Shut up!" "Get down!" "Shut up!" "Shut up!" "Shut up!" "My God, what is this child's fortune?" "No, it is not possible." "Fortunately she is leaving this house in a while." "May the schools open at once." "I took her to the island, but she goes around by herself." "Yes, she goes around by herself." "She has also left Nuran." "I don't understand." "You could take her around a little." "Where?" "I don't know, take her shopping, this is a big city." "Go out, damn it!" "...25, 26, 27, 28, 29 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43..." "Aunt, aunt!" "I smell something." "It smells something burning." "Of something burning." "Aunt, let's not walk this smell." "Aunt, please!" "You didn't come all night." "All night!" "Where were you?" "Why did you lock my mother's room?" "Why did you lock my mother's room?" "It wasn't me." "Your aunt Neyir." "But don't you understand?" "I couldn't meet my mother last night." "May be she will not be able to come once more." "My dear, your aunt Neyir is very worried about your situation." "She blames me for it." "She also blames this house." "Her real intention was to take you to the island until the school started." "If it goes on like this, she will take you away for good." "Mother." "How about my mother?" "She couldn't see me tonight." "Please." "My mother." "Open." "Open." "Please open." "Neyir has taken the key with her." "We'll go to the island together." "We'll ask Neyir, we'll persuade her." "She'll give us the key." "You go to sleep now, dear." "I can't believe my eyes, you here, after so many years." "What a surprise." "Let's take our tea at the Splendid, like in the old times." "You could have come in the morning." "You will spend the night I hope." "We came without informing Rahime." "My father is alone." "Yekta will stay then?" "I don't want to return by myself, we'll go back together." "Since the weekend is approaching." "We came to the island to take the key of my mother's room which you locked." "My dear Yekta." "Yes, I locked that room but you know it is for you." "Your aunt should also know this." "So that you could be free from of all those fearful dreams." "You should have seen her, she didn't sleep all night." " Would you please give me the key?" " No, my dear." "You will forget that room, that house and all of them." "You will forget it all." "I want to walk around a little." "I won't be late." "Don't go too far." "It's getting chilly." "You make all my efforts come to nothing." "You are more childish than the child." "You can not imagine what disasters will be fall upon us if it goes on like this by herself." "You are responsible and that house is responsible." "And now, I'm trying to save the child, you are preventing me." "You are taking the easy way." "Instead of locking the door, explain it to her." "Let them not believe you." "You listen to your mother." "She will hear you." "Could you look out from another window?" "I'm not looking out the window." "Tick-tack, tick-tack..." "It appears and disappears." "It appears and disappears." "May be it will not reappear." "Then, only tick-tack,tick-tack." "It appears and disappears." "My mother did not come tonight." "She's waiting for me." "I'm going to my mother Sýrrý Bey." "My mother calls me." "What can I do for you?" "Children's prayers are accepted." "Mine will no longer be accepted." "Everything is half-finished like this." "You, I saw." "You." "Yekta." "Yes, I saw." "You." "The best part is she suggested it herself." ""Let's us go pack my things", she said." ""I want to say goodbye to my Aunt, to Sýrrý Bey."" "Since then, I wonder what the reason is she is so joyful." "This is much better of course." "It will make her much easier for her to get used to the school leaving this house." "We can now speed up our English lessons." "Auntie, where's my seagull?" "I couldn't see it anywhere." "My dear Yekta, all of a sudden, without any reason I found it lying dead under the staircase yesterday." "Where is it?" "Did you throw it away?" "No, it is still there." "I'm coming." "How big is our house, Auntie!" "Yekta, come and have a look!" "She's done a good job sewing it." "It suits you well." "Turn around." "Over here, will be the school insignia." " Are you comfortable?" " Very." "Oh!" "Excuse me." "We were walking around then suddenly, we lost each other, suddenly." "Please, it was just a little girl." "Suddenly she" "Please!" "Suddenly, we lost each other."