The crossing is entirely dialogue, without named speakers. A phone call and a displayed name are followed by a held wrist, a request to let go and conflicting instructions about holding and pulling. A voice reports that the phone has gone under the ferry. Thanks follow, then another insistence on the name that was displayed. The hip speaker, wrist-holder and speaker who mentions a son are possible roles; the text does not fix their identity links.
Statements about the call meet replies that pull attention elsewhere. The name on the screen competes with talk of the hip and keeping hold. After the loss, an assurance that callers return if they want something answers the statement that he was calling. A repeated reference to his name meets a warning that names can be put on anything. Somebody finally praises the listening. The exchange supplies no independent proof of the caller's identity.
The phone, the retained word and the bag of crusts end differently. The phone is reported under the ferry, making the incoming call unavailable. A speaker says a word has been kept for him for eleven months and checked with the teeth at night; the dialogue does not spend it. The bag is called empty before and after the call, yet the offer of a crust is repeated. Nobody is shown accepting one.