The Courtesy House

About

The Blue Hour has twelve rooms, nine workers, one dead owner and seventy-two hours before the city seals the doors. Tamsin Ro manages the licensed adult-services house where she once worked. The founder promised the building to a worker trust, then died with the transfer unsigned. His estranged wife Renata inherits the property and arrives with a developer's 2.4-million-crown offer. Fifteen years earlier, she and Tamsin shared a flat, a bed and one failed attempt at ordinary life. Worker representative Noor wants the trust recognized and the client archive protected. Licensing officer Halden has found a humane manual-screening exception that broke the law. Across twenty scenes and four endings, the player handles wages, privacy, ownership, licensing and an adult relationship whose old tenderness has immediate financial consequences. Sex is never depicted. The work around it is treated plainly.

Cast

• Tamsin Ro protagonist and house manager
• Renata Vale inheriting owner and Tamsin's former partner
• Noor Basri worker representative
• Halden Marr city licensing officer
• Jessa Cole receptionist and safety coordinator