WAKE ME AT BERGEN STREET

Overview

Two small-time criminals rob a dying man’s brownstone, crack his safe, and make off with cash and jewels. When one of them murders the homeowner, the other realizes he partnered with the wrong man. In a forgotten storage room beneath the Bergen Street subway tracks, he shoots his partner, seals the room, and disappears into the city with the money — and a diamond ring he keeps for himself.

Twenty years later, that man — now old, exhausted, and haunted by the ghost of the partner he killed — returns to Bergen Street to settle his debt.

On the same night, Rich Webb, a Brooklyn bartender about to leave the only life he’s known, takes the last train home. An elderly stranger asks him for a simple favor:

“Wake me at Bergen Street.”

Rich agrees.

When Rich misses the stop he tries to wake the man, he’s dead — a diamond ring clutched in his hand. From that moment forward, the past begins to surface. The ring is worth a fortune. The old man’s identity doesn’t add up. And the man Rich buried in his memory begins appearing in reflections, on platforms, inside subway cars — glowing, floating.

The police investigate the man’s history revealing the robbery, the betrayal, and the storage room beneath the tracks where a Jack’s body was never found. The old man’s spirit fills in the rest and Rich finds he must rid himself of the Old man’s spirit of suffer the same tortured fate that he succumbed to.

Bergen Street is not just a stop. Some stops you can’t miss.

Wake Me at Bergen Street is a grounded supernatural thriller about greed, betrayal, and the impossibility of outrunning what you’ve done.