When a blistering heatwave knocks out their suburban home’s cooling unit, Becca finds herself confined to the sweltering second floor alongside her stepbrother. With their mother bustling downstairs just a few creaking floorboards away, every narrow hallway encounter and shared fan breeze tests the fragile boundaries of their blended household.
An ordinary chore repairing damaged electrical vents quickly dissolves into a nerve-wracking duel of whispered confessions and suppressed physical longing. Trapped under the same suffocating roof, Becca must master her racing pulse before a single careless whisper shatters their mother’s domestic tranquility.
