Barry gets ditched and robbed in one night. When Cecil, the owner of the local gay bar Haven, offers assistance, Barry has no reason to trust the offer -- yet what blooms between the two men seems to transcend the poverty and degrading circumstances both confront every day.

Barry yearns for Cecil, but when he kisses him, the advance is rebuffed, and he's left to continue on in his dreary, humourless world, wondering if there will be anything more to his bleak existence.

A week later, the two meet again. Can they confront their differences and become more than strangers with good -- but sometimes misaligned -- intentions?



Eve Morton is a writer living in Ontario, Canada. She teaches university and college classes on media studies, academic writing, and genre literature, among other topics. She likes forensic science through the simplified lens of TV and philosophy through the cinematic lens of Richard Linklator.