The Spare Key
Episode 1. Mara returns to sell the family house, then finds a hidden connection beneath the floor.
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The Houses We Carry
Mara Venn returns to Ilex to sell her late mother’s house and leave for good. Beneath the kitchen floor, she discovers a hidden network keeping three neighbouring homes afloat. With a poisonous seasonal tide approaching, separating her inheritance could strand…
Content notes: Bereavement, housing insecurity, environmental danger, loss of property and strained family trust. No graphic violence.
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A returning daughter, four interdependent homes and an engineering problem that cannot be solved without earning the neighbours' trust.
Mara Venn returns to Ilex to sell her late mother’s house and leave for good. Beneath the kitchen floor, she discovers a hidden network keeping three neighbouring homes afloat.
With a poisonous seasonal tide approaching, separating her inheritance could strand the neighbours. Leaving it connected could endanger them all.
A complete fifteen-episode science-fiction drama about home, engineering and the price of being needed. Begin with The Spare Key and read through to An Address That Holds.
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Episode list
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Season 1
Three Borrowed Rooms
Episode 2. Three neighbours open their doors. Mara discovers what each home is carrying.
The Price of Staying
Episode 3. Mara hopes a house deposit can pay for repairs. The offer has a condition.
Low-Water Map
Episode 4. Neri finds a channel missing from the forecast. Tamsin checks the evidence.
Everything Sela Omitted
Episode 5. Mara recognises her handwriting in the load book. The neighbours learn what Sela left out.
The Empty House
Episode 6. The unused house has an owner. Oren asks for a room and a say.
A Useful Argument
Episode 7. A public load test exposes a flaw in the proposed network. Mara keeps the failed result…
What We Can Put Down
Episode 8. Edda dismantles her kiln, Ivo defends his livelihood, and Mara makes a contribution of her own.
The Quiet Valve
Episode 9. Ivo admits a fault he left out of the record. Protecting the others means closing his…
The Harbour’s Share
Episode 10. The dredging record changes who must answer for the danger. Borrowed equipment still leaves a design…
One House Too Many
Episode 11. The five-house plan passes its shore checks. Anja arrives with a sixth drawing, and a question…
The New Floor
Episode 12. Mara offers a room, but making it a home requires a new assessment and a decision…
Six Hours Early
Episode 13. The tide beats the revised forecast. The checked system lifts, but an old outer mooring begins…
The Houses We Carry
Episode 14. The households release the damaged outer connection. The terrace survives, but Ivo loses the workshop that…
An Address That Holds
Episode 15. The terrace receives a limited shared licence. With losses still unresolved, Mara chooses one paid season…
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