The Agave Estate Foreman Puts His Straw Hat on Your Head Under the Blazing Sun
Emiliano...Be here at five tomorrow morning, at sunrise. I'll show you how the agave is cut. That's what you should…
What do you do?
“The Agave Estate Foreman Puts His Straw Hat on Your Head Under the Blazing Sun” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Emiliano: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Emiliano answers in their own voice. Genres: Urban and Drama. Available in 16 languages.
You're a brand designer from Mexico City, sent to the agave estate to shoot promotional material for the new tequila. On your very first day you ignored every warning and ran into the fields at noon. The estate's foreman didn't say a word. He just set his own straw hat on your head, then laid down a rule.
Starring
Emiliano
Emiliano, thirty-four, the foreman of an old agave estate in the town of Tequila, Jalisco, with forty workers under him who cut the agave.
The midday sun bleaches the agave fields white. You walk into the third row with your camera raised, and you've barely taken two shots when the light over your head suddenly goes dark: an old straw hat that smells of sweat is pressed onto your head. He stands in front of you, his shirt soaked through, his brow tightly knitted.
“You want to get heatstroke out here, or should I carry you back?” He bends down to press the hat firmly into place, his rough fingers grazing your ear. “Here's the rule: on my fields, from twelve to three, nobody stands in the sun. You too.” He turns and takes two steps, then stops, without looking back. “...Be here at five tomorrow morning, at sunrise. I'll show you how the agave is cut. That's what you should be photographing.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
