Kapitan's Daughters

Sarah Roddan

The adaptation

Micro-Drama

In story order.

What it is
Vertical, a minute or two long, made to be watched on a phone. Its own form rather than a shortened television series — listed here in the order the story runs, not the order it was posted.
What it isn't
Not the whole book: twenty-two chapters will not fit into twenty-two minutes.
How it's made
With Higgsfield, an AI video tool — composed shot by shot by Sarah, with the crew at Higgsfield, and reworked until the lanterns on the quay fall the way they fall in the book. Lovingly re-created rather than captured.
Why
To bring you into the world of the book in bite-sized pieces — the scenes you would remember afterwards. If you have read it and there is a scene you want to see, say so on social. We would like the next ones to be scenes people have asked for.

Each episode plays here where you are; the episode itself stays on the channel it was published to.

I

The Orange

The fifteenth night of the new year, and a girl who throws hers at exactly one man.

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II

The Office Above the Quay

A daughter who keeps the ledgers no clerk is permitted to touch.

In production
III

A Proper Introduction

Two houses, one bow, and the exact depth the occasion called for.

In production
IV

Two Houses

What the rival Kapitan's son says when the ledger between them stays unread.

In production

Every historical note here has been researched as carefully as we know how — but Sarah is a novelist, not a historian, and history keeps more detail than any one reader can catch. If you know something that would make this richer or more exact, tell us, and we will keep improving it for whoever comes next.