In Syracuse, 1996, Lucas (Tom Blyth) is a rising undercover agent tasked with luring gay men to public toilets to arrest them for indecency. There are clear rules that he must abide by to ensure that the arrest can’t be judged as entrapment – no talking, and he can’t step into the cubicle.

When he meets Andrew (Russell Tovey) on the job, he breaks the rules and falls in love. While Andrew vows that he only ever meets men once, Lucas persists in pursuing him. This increasing infatuation coincides with Lucas’s guilt over his role in persecuting gay men, many of whom are closeted and terrified of being outed. Interwoven with this budding relationship are scenes from a boisterous family dinner party at his mother’s house, where his lecherous uncle’s new girlfriend threatens to expose Lucas’s secret. In his directorial debut, Carmen Emmi has created an aesthetically striking and compelling film that draws the viewer into experiencing the world from Lucas’s perspective.