Studio Apartment

Monty has settled into a life as a live-in portrait model for the eccentric painter, Dave. It is Kansas City, 1995, and while there is probably somewhere better to be, here is tolerable enough. Dave has brought home Gabe, a new roommate for Monty, without warning. While Monty reengages with the outside world now located inside the safe walls of Dave's studio, Gabe starts to peel away at the things that have kept Monty isolated for so long. In an endurance test for the ages, Monty and Gabe see how long they can spend every minute together play-acting the erotic for Dave before they trauma bond or fall for one another.

Content warnings:

Graphic depictions of sex, sexual assault, self-harm, workplace harassment, and violence

Discussions of suicidality, body dysmorphia, sexual abuse and assault, injury, and use of profanity and queer slurs

Minor discussions of xenophobia, child abuse, and homophobia