Stories by @mr95

Côte d'Or

Marcus Osei-Durand, 32, was adopted at three by the Durand family — Burgundy's legendary négociants. He's spent his life becoming the best sommelier in the country, but he's never quite been invited to sit at the head of the table. When Isabelle Renard, 29, arrives to negotiate a historic vineyard merger, she sees only Marcus — not the family name. What unfolds across harvest season is a love story wrapped in terroir, inheritance, and the question of who truly belongs to the land.

Between Two Worlds

Naomi Adeyemi, 27, was adopted at birth by the Fujiwara family — one of Kyoto's oldest noble lineages. Raised in silk and ceremony, she speaks flawless Japanese, practices ikebana and tea ceremony, yet feels the weight of two worlds every time she looks in a mirror. When Kenji Mori, a free-spirited ceramic artist, falls for her not despite her duality but because of it, Naomi must choose between the identity her family built for her — and the one she's building herself.

Roses vs Lyses

Hundred years of war between England and France.

Aegon's Conquest

Aegon's Conquest

BETWEEN TWO MOONS

A disgraced neurologist retreating to a remote coastal estate in Brittany meets a Senegalese-American photographer on a solo project documenting disappearing lighthouses — and their unexpected connection begins to unravel a decades-old disappearance that the locals have long pretended never happened.

THE IVORY COAST

Set in Monaco and Lagos, a charming British art broker and a razor-sharp Nigerian-American investigative journalist are thrown together when a network of stolen African antiquities leads them into the center of a ruthless billionaire's empire — forcing them to choose between the truth, survival, and each other.

DAUGHTERS OF TROY

The War Seen by Those Who Never Chose It The Trojan War through the eyes of the women on both sides — Cassandra's unheard prophecies, Hecuba's ferocious grief, Helen's imprisonment in a story she never wrote, and Briseis navigating survival in Achilles' camp. A war epic where the women are not peripheral; they are the architecture.

THE WEIGHT OF FIRE

The Complete Odyssey of Prometheus From the forging of humanity out of clay, through the theft of fire, through thirty thousand years of eagle and regrowth — Prometheus's unbroken story. A meditation on sacrifice, suffering, and whether an act of love can justify infinite pain.

LABYRINTH

The Minotaur's Story — Told from the Inside Asterion has been called a monster his entire life. Sealed beneath Knossos in a maze of stone and shadow, he receives tributes of Athenian youth — but this year, one tribute is different. A psychological thriller about identity, monstrosity, and who gets to write history.

HOUSE OF OLYMPUS

A Dynastic Drama of Gods, Power & Betrayal The twelve Olympians rule creation — but behind the gilded gates of their eternal palace, alliances shift, secrets fester, and the line between justice and cruelty has never been thinner. Told through rotating perspectives, each season plunges into a different crisis threatening to fracture the divine order forever.

Avalon

Beginning in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Camlann — Arthur gravely wounded, Camelot in ash, Mordred dead — the film splits between two narratives: Bedivere's journey to carry Arthur to the water's edge and fulfil his final oath, and the story unfolding on Avalon itself as Morgan le Fay and Nimue prepare to receive the king. A film about grief, the mythology we build around those we love, and the question of whether "the once and future king" is a comfort or a burden on those left to wait for him. Shot with minimal dialogue in the Avalon sequences. The ending is intentionally ambiguous.

Knights Errant

Three knights — Tristan, Gareth, and an original character, Rhiannon — are dispatched on a series of quests that take them far from Camelot's grandeur. Each season is a loose anthology structured around a central journey. Camelot is a distant, idealised rumour to the people they meet. The series explores what "knighthood" means when stripped of pageantry — violence, compromise, genuine heroism, and the exhaustion of trying to be good. Inspired tonally by The Witcher books and early Coen Brothers. Contains dark humour as a survival mechanism against despair.

The Lady of the Lake

Told entirely from the perspective of Nimue, the Lady of the Lake, across three timelines simultaneously: her origin as a Celtic water-priestess during the Roman occupation; her long middle years watching over Excalibur and shaping events from the margins; and the aftermath of Arthur's fall, when she must decide what the next age of the world will look like. This is a slow, dreamlike series — closer to literary fiction adapted to screen than conventional fantasy. Morgana appears here as a younger woman who seeks Nimue as a teacher. Merlin appears as a former lover whose choices Nimue ultimately cannot forgive.

The Court of Camelot

Set entirely within the walls of Camelot at the height of Arthur's reign, this series is a political drama in the vein of I, Claudius and Succession. Arthur is a middle-aged king managing an increasingly ungovernable alliance. Guinevere runs the actual intelligence network of the kingdom. Lancelot is a traumatized war hero who has become a liability. Morgana is not a villain but a brilliant political operator excluded from power by gender. Season 1: The succession crisis. Season 2: The Grail quest fractures the court. Season 3: Guinevere and Lancelot. Season 4: The fall. Magic is ambiguous — always explainable, never confirmed.

The First Sword

A young, illiterate stable hand named Arturus discovers a strange iron sword buried beneath the ruins of a Roman fort. He cannot pull it free — until the night raiders burn his village. The story follows his brutal, unglamorous journey from orphaned peasant to reluctant warlord, with no magic, no prophecy, and no Round Table — only mud, iron, and loyalty. Merlin is here not a wizard but an aging Roman-trained physician and strategist who sees in Arturus the political instrument that could unite the fractured British kingdoms against the encroaching Saxon tide. The film ends not with triumph but with a single battle won and an uncertain dawn — the legend just beginning to breathe.

Descendants: Shadow Realm

A decade after the barrier fell, Auradon has flourished — but a rift between worlds has cracked open beneath Mal and Ben's kingdom. The Shadow Realm, a dimension where the echoes of vanquished villains fester into a living darkness, begins bleeding into reality. Six teenagers — heirs of heroes and villains alike — discover they alone carry the genetic magic needed to seal the rift. But doing so will require them to journey inside the Shadow Realm itself, where illusions take the form of their darkest selves. The film is equal parts epic fantasy adventure and coming-of-age character study, launching a new trilogy.

Descendants: Rise of the Forgotten Isle

A newly discovered island appears beyond the Isle of the Lost — a place where forgotten villains and side characters were banished. When magic begins leaking from it, a new generation of teens must investigate before it destabilizes Auradon.

This Time It's Real

An aspiring writer is forced to fake-date the C-drama actor at her school after her made-up essay about falling in love accidentally goes viral.

If You Could See the Sun

A scholarship student at an elite Beijing international school monetizes her invisibility powers by working with her academic rival to steal and sell her classmates’ secrets.

Escaping From Houdini

Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her partner-in-crime-investigation, Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New York to help solve another blood-soaked mystery. Embarking on a week-long voyage across the Atlantic on the opulent RMS Etruria, they’re delighted to discover a traveling troupe of circus performers, fortune tellers, and a certain charismatic young escape artist entertaining the first-class passengers nightly. But then, privileged young women begin to go missing without explanation, and a series of brutal slayings shocks the entire ship. The strange and disturbing influence of the Moonlight Carnival pervades the decks as the murders grow ever more freakish, with nowhere to escape except the unforgiving sea. It’s up to Audrey Rose and Thomas to piece together the gruesome investigation as even more passengers die before reaching their destination. But with clues to the next victim pointing to someone she loves, can Audrey Rose unravel the mystery before the killer’s horrifying finale?