Dave is a professional internet troll who lies for a living. Candace works at a blood lab with a bipolar boss. They meet online and discover it's hard to hug someone when you're keeping them at arm's length.
Writing
Dialogue so sharp you'll need to pause to recover
Acting
Jana Nawartschi carries the emotional weight like a champ
Director
Michael Thibault
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Safdie brothers and Nathan Fielder name-drops in keywords aren't accidental — this is part of a wave of anxiety-driven relationship studies where romance itself becomes the heist.
The HSV-2 reveal subverts the typical STI-as-punchline trope; it's treated as genuine intimacy obstacle rather than shame device, which almost never happens in mainstream rom-coms.
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