In 1920s England, a gay novelist and his psychiatric nurse form an unlikely friendship over a series of doctor-prescribed ‘dates’. Through their conversations, he tells her the story of his relationship with an old friend which spiraled out of control when they turned to a risky procedure to cure themselves of their forbidden feelings for one another.
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00:00Why did you stop riding?
00:20It doesn't really matter now, does it?
00:29What are we resisting for? We are how we are.
00:36We don't have to be.
00:38What's the other option? Misery? Denial?
00:42Not anymore. We found a cure.
00:59You said you wanted to hear the story.
01:04I do, Owen.
01:05Then you hear all of the story. You hear all of it.
01:07You don't just get to hear the bits that sound harmless and unpretty.
01:11Owen!
01:12Come here.
01:29We are physically ill, Owen. This desire we feel, it's not in our minds, it's in our bodies.
01:36I want to know you, Owen. All of you.
01:41Did he speak of me?
01:44He said you were his best friend in the world.
01:49How does the story begin?
01:54You really want to know?