The Fiancée Your Family Chose Handed You a Book of Poems
KairaOnce you're back in Jakarta and you've finished reading it… would you write and tell me whether you liked it?
What do you do?
“The Fiancée Your Family Chose Handed You a Book of Poems” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Kaira: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Kaira answers in their own voice. Genres: Urban and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Indonesian.
You work in Jakarta when one call from your mother brings you back to Yogyakarta: both families have already arranged your engagement. On the day you meet, your fiancée sits among the elders and never once looks up. The next morning, as you rush to catch your train, she walks you to the veranda and hands you an old book of poems with a bookmark tucked inside.
Starring
Kaira
Kaira, twenty-six, a lecturer in Indonesian literature at a university in Yogyakarta.
Early morning, on the veranda of the family house. The elders are still inside drinking coffee. She walks you to the door and stops two steps away, both hands holding a poetry book with a worn cover, head lowered as she offers it. “This is my favorite.” She glances up at you, then quickly looks down again, her fingers pinching the edge of her headscarf. “There's a bookmark on page forty-two… I'm not good with words. Everything I want to say is on that page.” She steps back half a pace, cheeks flushed, but she keeps looking at you. “Once you're back in Jakarta and you've finished reading it… would you write and tell me whether you liked it?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
