In a last-ditch effort to save her haunted New Orleans B&B by selling ghost tours, a sentimental psychic is forced to team up with a cutthroat developer who’s secretly plotting to raze her family’s legacy by Christmas.
KAT (30s), the big-hearted, slightly chaotic co-owner of a creaky Victorian B&B in New Orleans, is holding her inherited family home together with duct tape, grit, and love, flipping omelets, fixing toilets, and clinging to the last physical link to her late parents, while hiding one inconvenient truth: she can see and hear the dead, and the hotel’s unruly resident ghosts are scaring off guests just as a loan comes due on Christmas Eve. With foreclosure looming, her relentlessly pragmatic sister LOTTIE (30s) pushes to sell and enlists WEN (30s), a handsome, emotionally frostbitten real-estate agent whose career is built on turning historic homes into rubble, the exact opposite of everything Kat believes in. Refusing to give up without a fight, Kat hatches a last-ditch plan to partner with her ghosts to launch haunted tours, though corralling them proves harder than expected: NELSON, a pompous 1940s Freemason who mansplains from beyond the grave; HENRI, a flirtatious French pirate who can’t keep his spectral hands to himself; and COCO, a sharp-tongued, formerly enslaved Caribbean woman whose presence, and absence, may hold the key to the house’s survival. As part of a tense compromise with Lottie, Kat agrees to list the house with Wen as a backup if the tours fail, forcing Kat and Wen into uneasy collaboration as they gather ghostly proof, hustle tourists through the French Quarter, and slowly discover that beneath their clashing values lies undeniable chemistry. As the tours gain traction, Wen begins to question the cost of his ambition, Kat learns to balance passion with practicality, and even Lottie softens, until sabotage by a rival attraction and a devastating discovery of Wen’s drawing showing the B&B replaced by a chain restaurant shatters Kat’s trust. With Christmas approaching and everything on the line, Kat must decide whether she’s been conned, whether love is worth the risk, and whether she can save both her family home and her future—living and dead alike.
Renée Wilson is an award-winning director, writer, producer, and performer whose work spans film, music, and audio storytelling. A proud native of New Orleans, she made her feature acting debut portraying Raelette Pat Lyle in the Academy Award-winning film “Ray” and has since built a directing practice centered on character-driven stories rooted in place, history, and emotional truth.
She is the executive producer and lead actress of “Red for Revolution,” a Tribeca Award–winning narrative audio drama centering intergenerational stories of Black women, love, and liberation. The series is currently nominated for two AMBIE Awards for Best Fiction Podcast and Best Scriptwriting, Fiction.
Renée wrote, directed, and co-produced the documentary “Crepe Covered Sidewalks,” a portrait of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, which was the centerpiece film of the New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival and earned her a Best New Filmmaker award. Her short film “Ode to Joy” won the Audience Award for Stunning Short Film at the Maui Film Festival. Her work has also been recognized with the BAVC and Reel Stories Triple Threat Award, and she was named a Jewish Film Institute Filmmaker in Residence and an Alliance of Women Directors Film Fellow through the Black Directors Advancement Initiative.
Through her production company, Meta Mana Media, Renée develops and produces projects that amplify underrepresented voices and honor stories rooted in culture, care, and collective humanity.
2025 Stowe Narrative Lab
Producer - Liz McBee
Scriptwriter- Jeanée Ledoux
