Two episodes, two handsets that belong to other people. Read their messages, play their voicemails, and decide which version of the story gets out.
Each plan comes with a full handset, a contacts list full of strangers, and nobody to call when it gets complicated.
The Darnwick Ledger news desk · Thursday 28 May 2026, 19:42. A courier leaves a phone. People keep texting it.
The Bellweather Hotel, London · Saturday, 18:40. You picked up the wrong coat. The phone in the pocket is unlocked.
Every message is real. Every version belongs to somebody. You decide which one gets out.
IMG_0412 · harbour
Home movie · still
AlexYou're covering the desk at The Darnwick Ledger when a courier drops off Alex Rowan's phone. Alex is an executive assistant at the Hall. Alex is also gone.
The phone keeps ringing. Mum wants to know about Tuesday. Friends want to know about the album. Somebody at the Hall wants to know who ordered the ice sculpture. Everyone thinks they're still talking to Alex.
"Leah. You said you needed something better than my word. Keep this switched on. Please don't ring the Hall. A."The note in the envelope
Group chats, family, the Hall. Messages arrive as you play, one at a time, and the people sending them have their own reasons for what they say.
Casserole dishes, trouser hems, cheeky spam and the office fridge. The case is hidden in ordinary life, and you have to read it all.
Fully voiced messages from the people in Alex's life. What they leave out is part of the evidence.
Harbours, birthdays, rain on the window, old home movies. Compare them closely. Some of them disagree with what you've been told.
Publicity · Nia Shaw
Rehearsal · Nia Shaw
Session · OwenAfter a music-industry reception at the Bellweather Hotel, you pick up the wrong coat. In the pocket is the unlocked work phone of Ellis Ward, a famous producer and co-founder of Atlas Systems.
Before you can give it back, a celebrity news account offers money for a photograph that's already circulating. A singer appears to have been paid off. An artist says his voice was stolen. Ellis asks for your help, then starts steering you.
Nobody is trying to kill you. They're trying to charm you, pay you and get their version on the record.
"I think you've got my coat, which is irritating because yours is much nicer."Ellis Ward · voicemail
A lost phone. A familiar face. The edge of a photograph.
Money has a recipient, a reference and a purpose. Those are three different things.
A yes has edges too.
Read the line after the headline.
The accident was real. The opportunity came afterwards.
A publishable record needs room for the awkward parts.
Choose who receives the record, what they receive and whose name goes with it.
Publish everything, negotiate, sell the gossip, help the cover-up or walk away. No ending pretends a headline fixes a company.
A tight crop from a hotel meeting room is selling a story all over Loop. Drag to see what's outside the frame. In The Scandal, every picture has edges, and every edge has a reason.
There is an awful lot of certainty being squeezed out of a very small photograph.
Drag, swipe or use the arrows. Banking, dating, social and a whole album, all on a work phone that was never meant to leave the hotel.
A meeting room. Radical possibility, I know.
Being owed money and being paid are different verbs. Ask anyone with an invoice.
Each phone has its own record, and each artist has a page of their own: the full album, synced lyrics and the photo shoot. Some of the lyrics are evidence.
Type a place to see how sovu covers it.
The Perfect Lie and The Scandal are narrative games played entirely on a phone that isn't yours. Coming to iPhone.