Victim of Your Love

We are Dima and Vera, a small independent team. When AI tools became good enough for two people to make a cinematic series without a crew, we decided to try! Victim of Your Love is our first micro-drama series.

Vertical 60-90 second episodes match how people watch today, and the format suits a small team: one idea, one hook and one cliffhanger per episode. A late 1980s Soviet setting is hard to film without a big budget, but with AI we could create that cold, grainy world ourselves.

Victim of Your Love is a psychological thriller set in late 1980s Soviet Perestroika. Lena is 19 and starts her first year as a linguistics student, with her parents' divorce still fresh. She falls for Ivan, a charismatic loner with no past. When a student is found dead on campus, the romance turns dangerous. We want viewers to feel attraction and dread at the same time, that feeling of "don't trust him, but I can't look away."

We start with the script and break every episode into shots. Then we generate images and video with AI tools.

The hardest part is keeping characters and the visual style consistent across 30 episodes. The second hard part is that nobody knows your series exists, so you have to treat distribution as part of the production.

A strong first three seconds, one clear emotional beat per episode, and a cliffhanger that makes the next episode feel necessary. A consistent look and a regular release schedule matter too, because viewers learn when to come back.

Start smaller than you think. Pick one idea and finish three episodes before planning thirty. Tools are cheap now, so the rare thing is finishing.

We are new to HeyRuby. They answered our message quickly and gave us a clear path: the series is pre-approved once there are enough episodes. We like working with a platform that speaks to independent creators directly.

First, we finish season 1 (30 episodes) and release it daily on YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Instagram, with early episodes on Patreon and HeyRuby. We are also looking for a production, funding or distribution partner so we can grow the series while keeping its creative direction.