British Sign Language interpreter Ben Cooper thrives in the background, where keeping quiet is the entire point of the work.
That composure fails him only in one respect: a one-sided crush on his sole client, Simon Azie, a deaf PR agent whose career-first poise usually turns celebrity disasters into charm.
After Simon is tagged in an anonymous sex tape shot at a closeted client's country estate, the agency moves to cut him loose before the scandal stains its name.
Afraid their professional lives will be pulled apart, Ben proposes a reckless fix—claim that he is the unidentified other man.
Either they fake a relationship, or both careers are finished.
Simon, who has always shied from commitment, then plays boyfriend more convincingly than Ben ever allowed himself to imagine, which surely still means nothing.
