My Great-Grandma Is Eighteen

About this drama

One thousand four hundred ninety-nine characters, a long machine-translated listing that cuts off at a cliffhanger, read through rather than copied. The opening is a period scene, in 1955 the legendary mathematician Octavia Wrenford steps onto the stage to receive the National Lifetime Achievement Award in Science, having returned from studies in Europe with her husband Alden Harrowmere to co-found the National Institute of Mathematical Sciences, the original foundation of the Harrowmere family. Mid-ceremony, metal scaffolding above the stage collapses, and to shield her young son Edmund, Octavia shoves him out of harm's way and is fatally struck. Seventy years later she unexpectedly awakens inside the body of an eighteen-year-old girl who bears her exact name, and the modern Octavia's circumstances are itemized, raised in rural Vermont by her mother, brought back to Astor Bay by her father Gideon only after the mother's death, then humiliated and ostracized by half-sister Vesper. Carrying the soul of the trailblazing scientist, she refuses to be bullied, and the copy's two set-piece reversals are concrete, she pours red wine directly over Vesper's head in public, then solves a competition problem no other student in the school can crack, rising from low-ranking country girl to the academy's most talked-about prodigy. The listing breaks off at a banquet introduction, so the family mystery and the romance the title implies are the show's to supply. Thirty-five episodes, complete, 1,372 views.

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