Mektup Page #4

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See, I had just washed this shirt that

morning. He left without even putting it on.

But he'll be back. I know it.

Nothing can happen to him.

They say he's disappeared, that he's dead.

But that's not true. He'll be back.

Let me bring you some clean sheets.

- Where's the bathroom?

- Downstairs, right next to the kitchen.

Your father, he made me swear,

but, I just can't not tell you.

You have a sister. I just

couldn't not tell you.

What happened?

- Are you all right?

- Did you ever see "Superman?"

- No. - When he's flying with his girl,

you know he says to her?

- No.

- What a lovely thing you are.

So great you're here.

Orphanage.

My mother's first husband

was a pilot in the Luftwaffe

During the Second World War. But

then he began to turn against Hitler.

One day he took my mother and escaped

by plane to Istanbul via Bulgaria.

But the plane ran out of fuel.

They crashed somewhere near Edirne.

- My mother was crippled.

- When did she meet my father?

Her husband died right here on the spot.

A young fellow Onat Usta, saved her life.

Dunya, my sister! You're so beautiful.

Can I kiss you just once?

My father, I mean your father, met

my mother when she was with Onat Usta

They fell in love right away, but never

got married. You know father always thought

- that orphans were really angels.

- How long did he live with you?

Until mother died. I was just

beginning my medical residency then.

So what happened? Did you part at odds?

No, no. I think father had really hit

bottom. He had just set up the orphanage.

- He left everything to this place.

- You mean like the Christian saints?

- You can put it that way. - Didn't you

ever come across each other again?

Well, I suppose we did...

I don't know. He had changed.

- He kept saying, "thirty birds."

- Did he say where he was,

- what he was doing? - No, nothing.

he had changed, really changed.

It was as if he...

My mother said to me that everything and

everybody in this country was a fraud,

was filthy loud, and two-faced. According

to my mother that was the "East."

- What? - I said, this was

how my mother saw the East.

- That's because your mother hated your father.

- Sure, both him and his East.

She wasn't over able to understand

why my father loved the East. Never.

She wasn't over able to understand

why my father loved the East. Never.

So, am I your East know? Come on

tell me, am I your East or your West.

My spirit has found it's true home here.

- Quick. get up.

- What?

Elizabeth is here, she is

waiting in the lobby. Get up.

Hurry up, please, get dressed.

You're still sitting there...

Would you like something to drink?

Just a second, I'm coming Nilufer.

- I should be going.

- Let's go together we'll drop you off.

- I have to stop odd a few places.

- Okay, it's up to you.

I'll call you.

Sure we're going back,

sure, my lovely Czech.

I put it there, they took it, in between

those busy hours, I'd take it out and look

with no one there; The mirror that

showed myself to me, they took it.

Spring in winter, in my waters it blossomed;

What sent it fleeing over snowy peaks?

A yellowed page in an old notebook,

the meaning that showed myself to me,

they took it. It was a light,

it burned on lonely nights;

Evening, the flowers gone to sleep,

far shores enveloped in darkness,

The lamp that showed

myself to me, they took it.

- Hi. I'm looking for Nilufer.

- She's not here.

- She's not answering her phone either.

- What?

- Help me out. I've got to find her.

- That's not going to be easy, my friend.

- Why is that? - She has a pianist friend,

Ayten. Maybe she's with her.

- You haven't been around lately.

Where've you been? - Give me a drink.

Hey, you're The Man, aren't you? The

TV crime fighter. You're the greatest.

I mean, they should put up

your statue. I don't understand.

You, I mean, you're

the greatest, you're our

- savior. A national hero.

- What are you saying?

That lousy thief you uncovered last

week on your TV show. If I came across

that bastard I'D squash him

like a bug. Don't be ridiculous.

Hey, listen, I'm not pulling anything. But

is all this worth it? You making out okay?

Just give me the word if you need

anything. Just give me the orders. Just ask.

- Please, stop. I'll get out here.

- What do you mean?

You're the greatest, the greatest

of the great. I'd take you anywhere.

I said I want to get out. Can't

you hear me? Here's your money.

- What's this about money?

- Let me out, you idiot.

Let you out? Come on, once in

a lifetime you ride in my cab.

If I were to tell my buddies about this

they wouldn't believe a word. No way.

Pull over right here, I said pull over.

Did I do something? Why are you

getting so upset? I don't understand.

Who is there?

- Isn't Ms. Ayten home? - Please don't shout.

Why are you looking for Ms. Ayten?

- I trying to find Nilufer.

- Look, you're raising your voice again.

Would you please be helpful? Has

Nilufer stopped by in the last few days?

Now I get it. I've been on leave for

ten years. We haven't seen anyone.

Nobody's been here. Hey, are you

her American friend, what's his..

- Yes, I'm Ragip.

- Oh,! Now I get it. I've heard about you.

Come on in, come in. Quiet. Quiet.

Great playing, isn't it? We haven't

left the house since I got here.

When I'm on leave she

never invites anyone over.

And never disappoints me; always plays

for me. She knows how to get to a soldier.

- I've got to go. - You know something

about tape recorders, don't you?

I can't get it record.

It's on digital. Thanks.

If it weren't for Ayten's piano playing

I'd go crazy up therein the mountains.

Fighting every single day.. bodies all

over the place.. You understand, don't you?

Digital recording is really important.

I've lost my only boy, my little lamb.

Come here, my son, come here. Take my hand.

Hey.Look, he flew off into

the sky, just disappeared.

Didn't come back, didn't come back.

Sometimes I got the feeling he wanted to

go back to the States. But my being there

with him put a stop to that. At one point

I though of leaving. I even tried it.

I left him alone. Then I went back.

We were really locked into each other.

Just when I had found the two of

you, all of a sudden you disappeared.

Elizabeth, if she'd driven that

car any faster I'd be dead now.

At the moment that's what I

really wanted, father. To die.

To die suffering in an accident, to have

had a few last laughs at life looking up

at the sky there in the midst of a pile

of twisted steel, blood gushing out of my

ruptured organs. I would have had

one up on life, dying like that.

- Maybe I would have found the both

of us by dying. - What's this?

- A letter.

- Who for? Me?

He couldn't survive without

coming to this valley of the birds.

Battal, your father used to say, this is

the place to die. It was like his refuge.

The king of the birds, he'd always say.

Yes, once day all of the

birds in the world came here.

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