Seven Letters to My Fake Husband

To secure her dying grandfather’s last wish, a nurse marries a stranger for one year and leaves him seven sealed letters, one to be opened each time he is about to walk away. A complete, shoot-ready short-drama script package in English, delivered as a downloadable .txt development bible you can produce directly.

The script: Seven Letters to My Fake Husband

Logline. To secure her dying grandfather’s last wish, a nurse marries a stranger for one year and leaves him seven sealed letters, one to be opened each time he is about to walk away.

Format. 84 episodes × 95 sec vertical · approx 133 minutes of total runtime.

The premise.

• Grandfather Emil has one operation left and one condition: he will not go under until he has seen Iris safe.
• Caleb Nakamura needs a stable address and a reason to stop moving every eleven months.
• The marriage is one year. The letters are Iris’s insurance against hope.
• Each letter answers a specific reason for leaving: boredom, fear, someone better, the truth, the money, the grief.
• Iris does not know what she wrote in the seventh letter. She wrote it first and sealed it before she knew him.

Main characters.

• Iris Lund — F, 28, palliative nurse. Has sat with fifty-one people while they died and has never once cried at work. Manages feeling the way she manages a ward: triage, chart, move. Raised by her grandfather after her mother left without a note, which explains the letters entirely. Want: Get Emil through the operation. Need: To let someone stay without pre-writing their exit..
• Caleb Nakamura — M, 31, boat mechanic. Moves every eleven months, always before anyone notices he is good at something. Fixes engines with total patience and people with none. Has never received a letter in his life. Want: A file that says he belongs somewhere. Need: To find out what happens at month twelve of staying..
• Emil Lund — M, 79, grandfather. A retired lighthouse keeper who knows exactly what his granddaughter is doing and lets her do it because the alternative is her alone. Knows about the letters from episode nine. Want: To see Iris held by someone. Need: To tell her the truth about her mother before he goes..
• Sofie Lund — F, 52, the mother who left. Returns at episode fifty-five. Not a villain, not forgiven. Her arrival is why letter five exists. Want: To be at the funeral without being hated. Need: To accept that she does not get absolution..
• Dr. Amara Hale — F, 40, surgeon. Emil’s surgeon and Iris’s oldest professional friend. Delivers the hard news and the one piece of advice that changes the finale. Want: A good outcome. Need: To stop treating Iris as staff when she is family..

Structure. Act 1 (1-24): The Registry and the Envelopes; Act 2 (25-58): Six Letters; Act 3 (59-84): The Seventh

Sample hook. Ep 1-8 — One year, on paper: A registry office, two strangers as witnesses, and an envelope bundle tied with surgical tape.

Pro-tier bonus material included: monetization and paywall map, localization guide, an alternate ending option, a casting and look-book brief, and a writers-room expansion worksheet.

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. It also includes the full Pro-tier expansion sections.

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.