With a soundtrack ranging from Kendrick Lamar to Bollywood classics, this story of two couples explores the social construction of masculinity, cultural and racial fetishism, and the bridges and barriers we build in expressing love.
Content Warnings: Grooming, Alcoholism, Suicide (gunshot sound effect), Domestic Violence, Sexual Themes, Crude Language (including cursing, ableist language, racial slurs, and sexist language), and Flashing Lights. Some dialogue is in French and Punjabi, but knowing these languages is not needed to understand the story.
*These performances will require masks.
Two best friends, Kartikey and Tayo, find themselves in an exuberant Jazz Club to search for the mysterious owner named Elizabeth. But their lives are forever changed when Tayo accidentally falls in love with Shanti and Kartikey finally unmasks Elizabeth.
Many years later, the two men are forced to confront their pasts in a stunning conclusion that will leave you in tears.
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