they were most probably passengers just like herself , heading north to have a few days on holiday , but imagining other stories was more entertaining : the business woman was making the journey to meet up with a new love she had met over the internet and to who she was writing an email telling him how nervous she felt ; the old man was going back to his home town to reunite with his childhood friends ; the young couple had ran away from home because her father had forbidden them from seeing each other and they want to stowaway on a boat that would take them to a far away and unknown port where they would start a new life together ... and the woman with the three children ... that was the most complicated one .