In the taut 21-minute psychological thriller Authors of the Estate, director Abdou Cissé crafts a claustrophobic mystery that blurs the line between creation and reality. The story follows a reclusive novelist who inherits a sprawling, decaying estate from a distant relative, only to discover that the property's eerie corridors and locked rooms mirror the unfinished manuscript left behind by its previous owner. As the writer begins to explore the mansion, he finds cryptic notes and half-written pages that seem to predict his every move, pulling him into a labyrinth of literary obsession. Haunted by the ghost of the estate's former author and driven by a desperate need to complete the story, the protagonist must confront the chilling possibility that the house itself is writing him into its narrative. The film maintains an atmosphere of mounting dread and intellectual suspense, blending gothic horror with meta-fiction as the boundaries between author and character dissolve. With its tight runtime and focused tension, Authors of the Estate delivers a compact but deeply unsettling meditation on legacy, creativity, and the price of finishing another's story.