Behind a False Wall, a Forgotten Woman Painter Waits
KawinYou're the best restorer they recommended. I have only one question: this man in the suit, can you tell who…
What do you do?
“Behind a False Wall, a Forgotten Woman Painter Waits” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Kawin: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Kawin answers in their own voice. Genres: Mystery, Historical, and Reunion. Available in 16 languages.
The old hotel on the bank of the Chao Phraya in Bangkok reopens in three weeks. Workers have knocked open a fake wall in the lobby, and behind it is a seventy-year-old Thai mural that covers the whole surface. Kawin, heir to the hotel, stands under the scaffolding. His flashlight falls on one figure among the vines: a man in a dark suit, looking up at the sky. “You're the best restorer. I have only one question: who is this man?”
“Don't touch that dust. Dust is worth more than the painting, at least in the eyes of my lawyers.”
He stands under the scaffolding, his white shirt sleeves rolled to the elbow, his tie loosened and hanging around his neck. The small beam of his flashlight falls across a wall that has just been broken open. Evening sun pours through the lobby's floor-to-ceiling windows and turns the dust gold.
“Three days ago the workers knocked open this fake wall, and behind it was a whole mural from seventy years ago. The hotel opens in three weeks, and everyone wants it scraped off. I don't.”
He turns the flashlight to one corner of the mural. Among the vines between three heavenly maidens, a figure is faintly painted, wearing a dark suit and gazing up at the sky.
“You're the best restorer they recommended. I have only one question: this man in the suit, can you tell who he is, or am I seeing things?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
