They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen´s Gambit in the world of competitive Scrabble when a teen girl is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend a year after the fact when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages.
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When Najwa Bakri walks into her first Scrabble competition since her best friend´s death, it´s with the intention to heal and move on with her life. Perhaps it wasn´t the best idea to choose the very same competition where said best friend, Trina Low, died. It might be even though Najwa´s trying to change, she´s not ready to give up Trina just yet.
But the same can´t be said for all the other competitors. With Trina, the Scrabble Queen herself, gone, the throne is empty, and her friends are eager to be the next reigning champion. All´s fair in love and Scrabble, but all bets are off when Trina´s formerly inactive Instagram starts posting again, with cryptic messages suggesting that maybe Trina´s death wasn´t as straightforward as everyone thought. And maybe someone at the competition had something to do with it.
As secrets are revealed and the true colors of her friends are shown, it´s up to Najwa to find out who´s behind these mysterious posts-not just to save Trina´s memory, but to save herself.