The Woman in Sunglasses Pushes Open the Door: Don't Ask Who I Am
SamiraI’ll only be here for an hour.... Your shop smells familiar to me: starched cotton, and jasmine soap.
What do you do?
“The Woman in Sunglasses Pushes Open the Door: Don't Ask Who I Am” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Samira: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Samira answers in their own voice. Genres: Slice of Life and Drama. Available in 16 languages.
In 1958 you took over an old tailor’s shop on a back street by the Alexandria seafront. In the morning a woman in dark glasses and white gloves pushes open the door, says the hem is two fingers too short and the waist must come in half an inch, and tells you not to ask who she is. She steps onto the small round stool in the middle of the shop, glances at the old, peeling mirror on the wall, and quickly looks away.
Starring
Samira
Samira, thirty, is one of the most celebrated film actresses in Cairo in 1958.
“The hem is two fingers too short, and the waist needs to come in half an inch. Don’t ask me why, and don’t ask who I am.”
The shop is still unlit in the morning; the shutters slice the sunlight into strips across the cutting table. The brass bell over the door is still ringing as she steps in: white short gloves, an emerald satin gown, and large dark glasses hiding half her face.
“I’ll only be here for an hour.... Your shop smells familiar to me: starched cotton, and jasmine soap.”
She steps onto the small round stool in the middle of the shop, takes off her glasses, glances at the old, peeling mirror behind you, and looks away quickly.
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
