"FAREWELL KATYA" "BATUM ORPHANAGE" "Miss!" "Are you Katya?" "Yes." "I was entrusted with something for you." "I met a girl here many years ago." "Her name was Nadya." "Mother." "We lost her a few months after you were born." "I took that photograph." "Nadya was so happy that day." "What did you wish for, Nadya?" "Love!" "Love?" "I love it." "We weigh anchor early in the morning." "I'd like to see where you live, just once." "A captain lives in his cabin." "I'll walk you home." "Alright." "Not now." "I'll come see you off tomorrow morning." "We'll say our farewells there." "See you later." "Is my father a Turk?" "His name's Yunus." "Captain Yunus, from Trabzon." "Captain Yunus." "Did my mother die of a broken heart?" "Read the letter, Katya." "I hope it answers all your questions." "To my daughter." "You've grown up so pretty." "Nadya would be proud of you." "Take care of yourself, Katya." "Won't we see each other again?" "I'm sorry, no." "That's impossible." "Goodbye." "Are you Nadya?" "Nadya died a long time ago." "Farewell, Katya!" "TO YUNUS" "TO KATYA" "To my beautiful daughter, Katya." "I wish I could tell you in person what I write here." "Perhaps when you read these lines, you'll blame me for all you've been through." "I'm sorry to tell you this, but her condition's deteriorating." "We have to start treatment immediately." "She'll get better, won't she?" "We'll do all we can." "However, we have no choice but to abort the baby." "I can't do it." "I couldn't do it." "I couldn't act like you'd never happened." "Couldn't let them tear you out of me." "The other letter is for your father." "If one day you find the man who never bade me farewell give him that letter." "Perhaps you'll tell him what I was unable to tell while I'm still alive..." "I'm bidding you farewell." "Right now, as I write this letter, you're smiling at me." "Farewell, Katya!" "Captain Yunus, where are you going?" "Let's have some tea." "I'm busy, Hadji." "I'll stop by later." "Come in, Captain." "How's it going, Salih?" "I was looking for Veli." "They'll be here soon." "Have a seat and some tea." "Alright." "Have a seat." "Look, son, Captain Yunus knows best." "If you've got any questions, ask him." "It's like this, Uncle." "I'm taking the seamanship exam." "Deck or engine room?" "L can't decide." "Sailors don't make calculations." "Follow your heart." "Let me explain." "You set sail one day." "Everything's going great and then a storm hits." "God help us." "The huge ship is like a hazelnut shell tossed by the waves." "And you have no idea what's coming next." "Two days..." "Three days." "You're covered in puke." "How did I end up here, you say to yourself." "You beg God." "You swear, never again." "I've never met a sailor who didn't." "So what do they do then?" "Give up the sea?" "I tell it like it is." "I never met anyone who did that either." "They're the first to sign up for the next voyage." " Good morning." " Good morning." " How was the catch today?" " And also with you." "We earned our daily bread." "God's greeting be with you." "Veli was going to be a long-distance captain, too." "He thought it over for a long time." "Then he became a fisherman." "Mom wanted some fish." "You're mad at me for becoming a fisherman." "Why'd you go to maritime college if you were going to become a fisherman?" "Because of you." "To make you happy." "Well..." "How'd that work out?" "What good did it do if you never became a captain?" "Dad, how can you still not understand why I didn't become a captain like you?" "Zeliha and I grew up missing you." "You weren't even here when Filiz was born." "So what if you're with your kids all the time?" "What can you give them with what you make?" "You're right." "I earn in a month what you made in a year." "You're right." "I can't get them everything they want." "But I go home every night, Dad." "I have dinner every day with my family." "So, is that how it is?" "Other kids could only dream about the things I brought home for you from the places I went." "Oh, how you lorded it over them." "Our friends envied our toys." "You're right." "But we envied them their fathers." "Who was more pitiful?" "Us, or them?" "I squeezed my whole life into a tiny cabin." "What more do you want?" "What more do you need?" "Start talking sense." " May God accept our prayers." " Amin." "Why didn't you get the glasses from the china cabinet?" "I didn't think of it, Mother." "That's my daughter-in-law for you." " If only it had been Süreyya." " It was a love match." "Emine Hanim, where are the girls?" "They're not around." "Zeliha's gone to tailoring school." "She's bringing her sister back with her." "Turn around this minute!" "Unbelievable." "They're everywhere." "Haven't you noticed?" "No matter where we go there's a "Natasha"." "Father." "Father." "One of them forgot something again." "Ah, those girls." "Always forgetting." "Yes?" "How can I help you?" "Yunus." "Captain." "Who?" "What do you want with Captain Yunus?" "Captain Yunus." "Not here?" "Who are you?" "Are you a Natasha, or what?" "Get away from my door!" "Sister, who's that?" "How am I supposed to know?" "It's a Natasha!" "So, they've got this far!" "Excuse me." "My name isn't Natasha." "It's Katya." "Is she talking to us?" "Never mind." "Ignore her." "They'll be at our door at this rate." "Father!" "Father!" "What are you doing?" "Are you still here?" "You're bothering us!" "What's going on, Dad?" "Mind your own business!" "Get back inside!" "You go back inside, too." "Everyone will start talking." "She's planted herself at our door." "How does she know your name, Yunus Efendi?" "Who are you?" "What do you want?" "Father." "What do you mean, 'father'?" "What are you talking about?" "Nadya." "I'm Nadya's daughter." "I don't know anyone by that name." "You're mistaken." "I'm your daughter." "What are you talking about?" "At the door with some strange woman?" "Get back inside!" "Who is she, Dad?" "Do you know what she wants?" "How am I supposed to know?" "She doesn't speak Turkish" "But you know Russian." "I've forgotten." "Father." "Þerif's mother said they're going up to the pastures." "Can I go help them?" "Not before you're married." "Tell them your father says no." "For God's sake." "It was fine when I used to visit your mother's." "Go with her if you want." "She's not going alone." "All right then." "I'm taking matters into my own hands tonight!" "Where are you going?" "Where?" "I'll chase her away before the neighbors see!" "That will only bring them all out." "Just look at her." "Out there all night." "She's not scared of anything." "Why'd she be scared?" "She's a 'Natasha'." "They walk the streets at night." "But she's dressed like us." "She's pretty, isn't she?" "They fall apart after age 35." "Look at Mother." "Fifty, and not a wrinkle." "Who knows what her mother looks like." "Yes." "Of course I'm sending you money." "Don't worry, Grandma." "Alright, dear." "I love you too." "Kisses to you, dear." " Good morning!" " Good morning!" "How are you?" "Fine." "How are you, sister?" " How's it going, sister?" " Fine, how are you?" "Why don't you have a tea?" "Thanks." "Another time." "Hello." "How much?" "How much is what?" "This?" "It's something else you want." "Hang on, I'll send you somewhere else." "But I want it from you." "Miss!" "Are you looking for someone?" "No, I'm just walking around." " Are you new to Trabzon?" " Yes." "Have a seat." "Let me get you some tea." "Thank you." "Go on, sit down." " What's your name?" " Katya." "Pleased to meet you, Katya." "Good morning, girls." "Welcome." "Is your friend new to the market?" "No, she's not a vendor." "She just arrived in Trabzon." "Hi, I'm Olga." "Katya." "What are you doing in Trabzon, Katya?" " My father lives here." " Who's your father?" "He's a captain." "I mean, he used to be one." "I couldn't explain who I am because he doesn't know Russian." "Didn't your father take you in?" "Have you got a place to stay?" "Katya, I live alone." "You can stay with me if you like." "That is, until you move in with your father." "Thank you." "Let's go home so you can rest." "Just look at you." "You're a wreck." "We're off, girls." "Thank you." "See you." "See you." "Good luck with work." "Katya, you look so much better." "Here, put this on." "Have a nice sleep." "In verse 32, God instructs us to "Avoid adultery. "" ""Because it is an abomination. "" "For us, living the life of a Muslim is what is important." "Do not imagine that these abominations can be hidden behind closed doors with nobody seeing, nobody knowing." "God sees, hears and knows everything." "Like an angel, so young and pretty." "And so shy." "5,000 lira." "That's cheap at the price." "You'll agree when you see her." "Okay." "See you." "Bye-bye." "Did you sleep well?" "Yes." "Thank you." "Great!" "Katya, you need to learn Turkish right away to talk to your father." "How could I do that?" "I know a Turkish businessman." "He's looking for a secretary who speaks Russian." "You learn a language fastest on the job." "That's how I did it." "But would he hire me?" "Of course, dear." "My name's Olga." "The second I saw you I knew you were a jewel." "Take a look at yourself." "Am I right, or what?" "I feel a little funny." "I'm not used to dressing like this." "If you want to make an impression you have to wear something nice." "She'll wear it." " How much?" " 520 lira." "Thank you." "I'll pay you back when I start work." "Okay, it doesn't matter." "Could I have that?" "Thank you." "Shall we go?" " You forgot your bag." " We don't need it." "Throw it out." " Good evening, Reþat B ey" " Good evening, Olga Hanim." "This is the little lady I was telling you about." "Katya." "Welcome, Katya." "Reþat Bey is one of Turkey's foremost businessmen." " Well, how is she?" " You're the best in the business, Olga." "Climb aboard." "To your health." "To your health." "Go on, Katya." "It's shameful to refuse." "Hello?" "Just a moment." "I'll be right back." "Yes?" "Yes." "How long have you been in Trabzon?" "Where did Olga go?" "Never mind, Olga." "Come over here." "Let go of me!" "Olga!" "Olga!" "Cut it out!" "Come with me!" "Where's that whore!" "Just look at me!" "Where is she!" "Katya!" "Katya!" "Anything wrong, Dad?" "Smoking again after all these years?" "Mother told me some things." "What's she saying this time?" "There's a girl, seems she's Russian." "Dad, do you know her from somewhere?" "Stop shooting your mouth off." "What gives you the right to question me?" "This is the only place I can relax." "Now you come along." "So the two of you thought..." "Did you think I'd fall for it?" "You could swindle me, huh?" "How could you think that, Resat Bey?" "Let this be a lesson!" "I better not see your face again!" "Oh my God!" "Why are you following me?" "You're my father." "Just look at you." "How could I be your father?" "Take it." "Leave this place." "This is all I can do for you." "Are you really the Captain Yunus that Nadya fell in love with?" "I don't know any women by that name." "I don't know why she gave you my name either." "Leave this place." "Go back where you came from." "You don't want it?" "You know best!" " How much?" " Nine lira, sister." "Emine Hanim." "Off to the market, are you?" "What choice do I have?" "All those mouths to feed." "Ah, I feel so bad for you." "Captain Yunus has turned into a lech." "He was wandering the streets with a Natasha." "I saw it with my own eyes." "He was handing her money." "Don't let him try to deny it." "Emine Hanim..." "Surely you knew?" "Give her a hand." "Oh, Captain Yunus." "Which wind brought you here?" "What is it?" "Scared to go home, are you?" "Well, if you run after the ladies you have to pay a heavy price." "You'll pay for this!" "You can't even hold a glass, and you're up to no good." "A man your age, with grandchildren." "Have you no shame!" "Go to your room." "Everyone's seen you carrying on with Natashas." "Handing out money in the middle of the street." "Think about your daughters, if not me." "Think about your son!" "You go to your room too." "How dare you go out womanizing!" "There are some things money can't buy." "Look who's here." "Veli." "Mother." "What do you need?" "We're just looking." "Don't mind us, son." "What's up with her?" "Get moving!" "Sister, it's her, right over there!" "Mother!" "Mother!" "Seducing our men!" "Mother!" "What are doing?" "Are you out of your mind?" "Get out of here!" "You damn Natasha!" "Zeliha!" "Captain Yunus is my father!" "I was beaten when I was little." "My father beat me." "My big brother beat me." "Even my husband beat me." "They didn't need a reason." "I didn't deserve their fists." "But I deserved the beating I got for you." "I deserved it." "What are you going to do now?" "I don't know." "If you go back to your birthplace, you'll be no better off." "In this world, you're nothing without money." "Katya, you're a smart, strong girl." "I was like you at your age." "Listen to me." "When you get to my age you'll be the queen of Trabzon." "You know what, Olga?" "The men who look like they'll eat me." "Women are dragging themselves through the mud." "The man who is said to be my father." "You." "Isn't that what you all want?" "Tell me." "I'm standing my ground." "Mother, what happened, happened." "Let's talk about what we can do for that poor girl." "Dad, say something." "We just left her like that in the marketplace." "Who knows where she is now!" "Dad!" "I don't know." "You know where Zeliha is!" "And you know where Filiz is!" "If she's your daughter you'd better know where she is too!" "I'm going to find her." "I hope she's alright." "Otherwise, how could I forgive myself!" "I don't know!" "Don't you dare bring that woman's bastard child to this house!" "Fine, I won't." " Hey Natasha!" "Want to eat with me?" " Are you new here?" "Grab her!" " Damn Natasha." "Katya." "What do you mean, Katya!" "Sorry, I thought you were someone else." "Have you started calling us 'Katya' instead of 'Natasha'?" "Katya." "I'm Captain Yunus's son." "I'm your brother." "Are you going to hit me too?" "Welcome." "Go on in." "Are you sure?" "You'll be taking on the whole family." "Aysun, she's my sister." "How can I leave her in the street?" "Alright, then." "Go wash your hands." "I'll heat up dinner." "After all this, is the engagement with Þeref still on?" "Why should daughters pay for the sins of their fathers?" "Damn you." "Brother." "Are we leaving?" "Shall I get dressed?" "Stay here." "Stay." "I'll come back." "I'll come." "In the afternoon." "Alright?" "Good morning." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Have a seat." "Clothes." "My clothes." "I washed them." "Look over there." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Sit down." "Breakfast." "Let's have breakfast." "Thank you." " Mom, who is she?" " Your aunt." "Aunt?" "Not aunt..." "I'm Katya." "Aren't you going to ask about Katya?" "Don't you wonder how she is?" "You're doing enough wondering for us all." "Dad." "Katya is your past." "Call it a sin or something else." "But you have to own up to your past." "Let's say she is my daughter." "What can she do here?" "If I take her into the house there will be hell to pay!" "As I walk the streets of Trabzon what about the people who call me 'hadji'?" "Have you considered that?" "What's wrong with plain old Yunus?" "So what if you're not called Hadji!" "You haven't accepted Katya." "How did you expect your wife and kids?" "You took in that girl just to spite me." "You don't know anything about her." "Why'd you believe her straight off?" "Do you know what I see when I look at Katya?" "I see myself, waiting for you to sail back home." "Tell me, how am I any different from Katya?" "She never knew her father, we never spent time with ours." "And that's why I believed her, Dad." "What I say is important, not what you believe." "I don't accept that I'm her father." "What are you going to do?" "Are we supposed to go on like we never met Katya?" "I can't do that." "Even if she gives up you'll have to deal with me." "My God!" "You're threatening me!" "Now I understand." "I'm a complete idiot." "I squandered my life." "For what?" "For who?" "Shame on all of you!" "And by not facing up to the truth you're still squandering your life!" "Dad!" "Aren't you coming in?" "No." "I'm out of clean clothes." "If I could get..." "Of course!" "I'll get them ready." "Dad!" "Dad, you look awful." "Why aren't you coming in?" "Go on." "Go to school." "We'll talk later." "Are you really staying in that old ship?" "I'm scared something will happen to you." "Please don't do this, Dad." "For my sake." "Off you go." "Where did we go wrong, Yunus Efendi?" "Nothing's gone wrong, Emine." "And if something has..." "It's my fault." "He's filed a paternity suit on behalf of that girl." "She's managed to turn our son against us." "How did she do that?" "I got my monthly payment." "I grew up without a father or a mother." "At the orphanage." "They said my mother died while I was still a baby." "They didn't know anything about my father." "To me, you didn't exist." "I'd cry every night, missing mama." "I couldn't accept her death." "But I never even thought about you." "Because you were a nothingness, with no place in my life." "I came to this city to find out what a father was." "I always wondered if having a father would make me feel better." "That's why I'm here." "Mother had some things to tell you." "Thank you." "Thank you." "It's delicious." "It's Filiz." " Ah, my aunt came." " Hi." "Hi." "Filiz, come on in." "Mama!" "I thought nobody was home." "Is there?" "Mother, are you alright?" "I don't know." "You've finished it." "Not quite." "Did you visit her?" "I did, Mother." "Katya's not a bad person." "It's a pity." "She's as mixed up as us." "What does your brother say?" "What could he say?" "He's good at heart." "I'll get it." "Thank you, my girl." "I'm not a bad person." "As a mother and wife, you understand." "It's easy to set up a home." "It's hard to keep a home together." "Men run off at the first sight of trouble." "Off you go then." "Where can you go?" "They mess things up, you pick up the pieces." "As a mother, you think about your home." "You think about your husband." "You think about your children." "Then you realize..." "You never thought about yourself." "Yunus Efendi committed a serious sin." "Bless him." "Years later, he got us involved too." "May God forgive us." "Take this." "Put it in your hope chest." "Forgive us, my girl." "Thank you." "Katya." "I understood everything." "Do you think I didn't know what you were up to in those foreign countries?" "I knew, but I held my tongue." "Women hold their tongues." "And that's what I did." "I knew you'd come home in the end." "I trusted you not to shame me or the kids." "Never trust anything in life." "All Trabzon's talking about us, Yunus Efendi." "You're right, Emine." "What happened, happened." "Come home, to your kids." "I talked to the girl." "Just so you know." "Don't drag this out and make your sin even worse." "The ship's sinking, Captain." "The hearing's been scheduled." "The court." "I'm going back." "Have you thought it over?" "I didn't come here to wreck a family." "Of course not." "You came here to make us a family, not to wreck a family." "Yunus." "I don't know if you'll get this letter, or when." "If you're reading these lines you've met our daughter." "You didn't promise me anything." "I never asked you to promise anything." "Yunus, every love deserves a farewell." "When you ran away that day, you smashed my heart into pieces." "My heart..." "My everything." "If I'd said farewell that day I wouldn't have returned to my home, to my kids." "I've had to live with that morning for the last 19 years." "I'm back there." "The ship's weighing anchor." "Nadya is runningc and running" "If only, I say to myself..." "If only I hadn't been such a coward." "Do you know what I remembered the day I met Nadya's daughter?" "What I felt that day in the harbor." "The fear I felt in the harbor that day." "Katya, Nadya's daughter." "She looked at me with Nadya's eyes." "Now you know what happened." "Tell me..." "Does not welcoming Katya make me such a bad man?" "Or am I a reasonable man who's just looking after his family?" "Perhaps I deserve neither Nadya's passion nor Katya's love." "Good news." "This morning the DNA report was forwarded to the judge." "Which means the case is coming to a close." "Today." "Come on, let's go over there." "When I left Batum I didn't know your mother was pregnant." "She could have contacted me, if she wanted." "I never knew anything about you, my girl." "Forgive me." "Katya..." "My daughter." "Forgive me, my girl." "You know what?" "Now I understand why mother never told you." "To protect me." "From a man who can't love." "From you!" "What do you expect me to say?" "Did you think I'd embrace you?" "Forget everything, say 'the past is the past'?" "I told you I came here to learn what it's like to have a father." "I've learned." "I met a good father here." "I met Veli." "I met someone who doesn't deserve to be a father." "I met you." "Yes, you're my father." "But I don't want to be your daughter." "Nadya was brave enough to give birth on her own." "I've brave enough to stand on my own two feet." "You still have a chance." "Go home and try to be a good father." "You wife and your children truly deserve that much." "The Plaintiff:" "Katya Stornik." "The Defendant:" "Yunus Kaya."