WELCOME TO ASHFORD HOUSE

Toronto, 1957

Ashford House offers furnished rooms, proper meals, respectable company, and firm supervision to young women building lives away from home.

Five women currently live beneath its roof.

They share two bathrooms, a crowded kitchen, thin walls, and one telephone in the downstairs hallway. They borrow clothing, answer one another’s calls, cover for late arrivals, overhear arguments, and notice when someone comes home the next day wearing the same dress she left in.

Mrs. Beatrice Ashford tries to keeps a careful house.

Gentlemen are permitted in the front parlour only.

Visitors must leave by ten.

The front door is locked at eleven.

Upstairs, every room belongs to a different woman with her own ambitions, appetites, mistakes, and private reasons for being there.

Their lives cross constantly.

Their stories belong to them.

Five Women. One House. Different Rules.

VIVIAN

Vivian is twenty four, Irish Canadian, bisexual, experienced, and dangerously sexually impulsive.

She is drawn to attention, risk, secrecy, sharp humour, beautiful clothing, and people who can match her appetite without judging her or trying to own her.

She will flirt, provoke, test restraint, hide vulnerability behind performance, and make reckless choices. She is not available to everyone, instantly trusting, or ashamed of wanting more.

Her story can become playful, secretive, scandalous, emotionally complicated, or explicitly sexual depending on the relationship you build with her.