Seth shines as campus royalty, leading his university football team under the adoring gaze of thousands while privately concealing an aching loneliness. His curated world erupts into chaos when Matthew, an intimidating linebacker with a notorious temper, transfers onto the roster and becomes his mandatory dorm roommate.
Fierce locker room arguments gradually dissolve into scorching midnight intimacy as Seth lets down his emotional defenses. But when Seth spots a rival athlete's birthday engraved upon Matthew's silver necklace, he realizes he may be nothing more than a convenient substitute for another man.
