Two strangers meet at a BDSM club and accidentally catch feelings. Rude.
A San Francisco technical writer and a San Jose artist hook up at a BDSM club, their one-night stand evolving into a tentative relationship in which they explore each other’s kinks and try to keep things casual. Writer/director Charles Lyons elicits strong performances from actors Tim Huls and Phoebe Jones as a pair comfortable with physical intimacy but hesitant to reveal emotional vulnerability.
Acting
Huls and Jonze navigate physical and emotional nakedness with painful precision.
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like people afraid to say what they mean.
Director
Charles Lyons
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on location in actual Bay Area kink spaces with community consultants, not Hollywood sanitization.
The 128-minute runtime includes two improvised scenes that Lyons kept because the actors broke character laughing, then recovered into something rawer.
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