Eva's Stories

What is this?

With 1.1 million followers, Eva.Stories is a high-budget visual depiction of the diary of Eva Heyman – a 13-year-old Hungarian who chronicled the 1944 German invasion of Hungary. It’s a whole romance that has been narrated through instagram stories, successively collected into chapters placed in the highlight content of the profile itself. Each chapter covers a different day within the life of Eva, starting from her daily life and gradually turning into the nightmare of the German invasion.

Why is it interesting?

The projects resembles an interesting, engaging and easy-to-follow way of narrating whole stories through social media. Being a collection of IG stories, the content is short, easy to digest and with a tone of voice and visual aesthetics that really makes the audience being of part of the narration itself. Eva does not look like an actress of a movie, but rather like a friend who is sharing bits of her life through her Instagram profile.