Reborn as the Maid Who Buried Me

A murdered socialite wakes in the body of the household maid who carried her coffin, and must destroy her own family from four floors below the room where she used to sleep. A complete, shoot-ready short-drama script package in English, delivered as a downloadable .txt development bible you can produce directly.

The script: Reborn as the Maid Who Buried Me

Logline. A murdered socialite wakes in the body of the household maid who carried her coffin, and must destroy her own family from four floors below the room where she used to sleep.

Format. 72 episodes × 90 sec vertical · approx 108 minutes of total runtime.

The premise.

• Verity dies on the marble and wakes in Alma’s body, six months earlier.
• Alma’s consciousness is gone. Verity does not know where, and it becomes the show’s moral wound.
• The family will not look at her, which is a disadvantage in every way except the one that matters.
• She has six months until the day she is scheduled to die, and she intends to still be in this house when it arrives.
• The person who pushed her is someone she has been in a room with a thousand times.

Main characters.

• Verity Crane / Alma Reyes — F, 33 in a 26-year-old body. Was raised to run a house and never learned to clean one. Adjusting to the body is the show’s first act of humiliation and its first source of genuine growth. Sharp, imperious, unlearning it painfully. Want: To identify her killer and remain alive past the twelfth of June. Need: To become someone worth the life she stole to get here..
• Sebastian Crane — M, 38, her brother. Charming, indebted, terrified of their father. In the first life he inherited everything. Verity assumes he pushed her for exactly forty episodes. Want: The estate and his debts erased. Need: To be found out, honestly, so he can stop..
• Odile Crane — F, 62, the stepmother. Married into the family nineteen years ago and has been managing it ever since. Speaks to staff with immaculate courtesy and complete blindness. Knows the house better than anyone alive. Want: The family name preserved through the next generation. Need: To be seen as more than the second wife..
• Hector Reyes — M, 55, Alma’s father and the groundsman. The one person who notices his daughter has changed. Does not conclude possession. Concludes trauma, and treats her with a gentleness Verity has never received from anyone. Want: His daughter safe and out of that house. Need: To let her make her own choices..
• Dr. Lucian Ward — M, 44, family physician. Signed the death certificate in the first life. Present in the house weekly. The thread that leads to the truth. Want: To keep a very old arrangement quiet. Need: To stop being paid for silence..

Structure. Act 1 (1-22): Below Stairs; Act 2 (23-50): The Listening Months; Act 3 (51-72): The Twelfth of June

Sample hook. Ep 1-6 — The marble: Verity is pushed, dies, and opens her eyes six months earlier in a bed she has never slept in, in a room she has never entered.

What you receive

One production-ready script package (.txt): quick facts, pitch, core premise, world rules, main characters, relationship map, structure framework, full episode hook map, formatted sample pages, hook and retention rules, and production notes.

Format and delivery

This is a digital download. After purchase you get immediate access to the .txt file(s) listed above. The text is English, fully formatted, and ready to hand to a writing or production team. License: non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual — adapt, translate, and produce commercially. You may not resell the document itself as a script product.