“Fatal Crossing, Les Filles du Ferry” is a Danish adaptation in 8 episodes of the successful novel by the Danish writer Lone Theils.
Fatal Crossing is a Danish series in 8 episodes broadcast on Arte from this Thursday, March 13, 2025. The pitch? Correspondent for a large Danish newspaper in London, journalist Nora Sand finds herself in the heart of a scandal. Accused of having had an affair with one of her sources in a politically explosive affair, she returns to Denmark and puts herself green in her father while things calm down.
But when she hears about an unresolved disappearance case dating back to the 1980s, her journalistic instinct takes over. At that time, two young girls, Lisbeth and Lulu, “evaporated” from a ferry which made the connection between Denmark and England. While Nora plunges into a past filled with dark secrets, Sofia, another teenager, disappears in turn …
The series Fatal Crossing Is it inspired by a true story?
In the purest style of the Nordic thriller, Fatal Crossing still manages to go beyond the cliché of the famous “black series from the cold”, thanks to a captivating intrigue from start to finish (up to a stunning final twist), served by a careful writing and a breathtaking achievement, in the landscapes as fascinating as they are worrying. With a suspense and anxiety that will crescendo throughout the eight episodes, the series works first thanks to its total mastery of the codes of the thriller, sometimes turning to the terror as certain sequences are terrifying.
Adapted from the first successful novel of the same name, written by the Danish writer Lone Theils, Fatal Crossing Nevertheless is inspired by a real news item. A matter of two unknown young women, kidnapped at Copenhagen station, whose photos were found by American police investigating a serial killer from the United States. Lone Theils obviously took a lot of freedoms from the case, creating a character from scratch to serve his intrigue. If the heart tells you (and if it is well hung), the author then produced other thrillers with the same heroine.