Reclusive genius, Darren's life is turned upside down when he meets art gallery owner Jake. Both men enter into an affair but both fear involvement. Tangled in a web of love and lust, their relationship develops into one of complex emotional control and bondage. Each man realises that although in the past they have shipwrecked chances of happiness they now can't let one another go and it is time for them to face their inner demons. Each stands to gain something precious from the other - namely a chance at emotional liberation and true love. Can these two men, who are both hiding secrets from one another, make the ultimate sacrifice in order to save their love affair? Darren thinks they can, but things are about to take a startling turn for the worst when Jake is forced to come clean about the massive secret that overshadows his life?.