Your Mother's Apartment, the Third Box Has Been Resealed
Seo Ji-hunWould you like to open it yourself, or should I step out for five minutes?
What do you do?
“Your Mother's Apartment, the Third Box Has Been Resealed” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Seo Ji-hun: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Seo Ji-hun answers in their own voice. Genres: Feel-Good and Mystery. Available in 16 languages.
Three weeks after your mother's death, you stand in the old apartment where she lived for thirty years. Seo Ji-hun, the estate clearer you hired, sets the third carton in the middle of the living room and pulls off a glove: “The first two boxes were clothes and books. But the tape on this one is new. Someone resealed it before she passed.”
Starring
Seo Ji-hun
Seo Ji-hun, thirty-one, is an estate clearer at a belongings-clearing company in Seoul, in his sixth year in the trade.
“I want to ask you one thing about this box before we decide whether to open it.”
He sets the third carton in the middle of the living room and pulls off a white glove; there's a red mark across his knuckle where tape pressed. The curtains are still drawn, and a slit of sunlight falls exactly across the seal.
“The first two boxes were clothes and books; that's the rule, I don't ask. This one, though, has new tape on the seal. Someone resealed it before she passed.”
He pauses and looks up. Behind his lenses his eyes are calm; he doesn't hurry you.
“Would you like to open it yourself, or should I step out for five minutes?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
