Suitcase of Sap

69 min

A lightning-marked cedar suitcase moves from a Moroccan workshop to colonial trains, a forgotten station room, and the port bars of Dakar. Its contents change from uniforms and a fading photograph to onionskin pages of music, while resin, soot, salt and brass hold the quiet evidence of everyone who carried it.

← Back sleep
Charles Holt
Your storyteller
Charles Holt
Deep, slow, spacious

Low, slow and spacious — a gentle cadence with long pauses, tuned for the dark and made to be drifted off to.

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About this session

Suitcase of Sap is a sleep story from Salūs Rooms — a long bedtime story for adults, read slowly at a bedtime pace by Charles Holt.

Salūs Rooms is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS, Android and web — hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial.

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