Mist Inn

On a deserted, misty shore stands The Mist Inn: a grand manor-turned-inn that appears on no map. It reveals itself only to those who have lost their soul's direction. The host is the mysterious Ethan Mist, a man carrying an eternal curse of his own.Through a modular yet perfectly organic 9-chapter structure, the inn welcomes different guests, each of whom confronts a universal human trauma:Grief: An architect who lost his wife looks through a window that reflects their very first home instead of the mist outside.Guilt: A stern writer suffering from writer's block is forced to type on a typewriter that prints in the handwriting of the friend she betrayed.The Anxiety of Choices (FOMO): A young man turns the hands of a grandfather clock to "e;live"e; the alternative lives he missed out on.Depression & Remorse: A 19-year-old girl who feels emotionally "e;invisible"e; and a 75-year-old captain who survived a shipwreck and finds the glowing memories of his lost companions in the flooded basement of the Inn.As the guests find redemption, leaving behind a personal object as payment, the greatest twist lies within Ethan himself. A violent storm will bring his own dark past from the 19th century to the surface. When the final guest turns out to be his own salvation, the inn will demand a new Keeper—closing a powerful circle of life, death, and rebirth.