Max is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, meeting men via an escorting platform. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories and the worthy debut novel that he has been longing to write, finally seems within reach.

Simon, a lonely gay man in his 40s, feels noticed by a young cashier in a local nightshop. At first more spontaneously, but then more methodically, he sets his mind to winning him over.