In the late '90s, Chester and Sonny are a long-term, committed, romantic couple. When Sonny wants to redefine their relationship, Chester, a painfully introverted cartoonist, starts sleeping with sex workers and discovers a new kind of intimacy in the process.
Acting
Dan Beirne's anti-charisma is weirdly magnetic.
Direction
Sook-Yin Lee brings lived-in warmth to potentially cold material.
Writing
Adapts Chester Brown's graphic novel without sanitizing its politics.
Director
Sook-Yin Lee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chester Brown's original graphic novel caused a minor civil war in Canadian indie comics circles in 2011, with critics debating whether it was a genuine manifesto or elaborate self-justification.
The film arrives as sex work decriminalization debates resurface globally, making what felt niche in 2011 suddenly central to mainstream discourse. Lee's adaptation timing is almost suspiciously prescient.
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