The extreme isolation of the film’s protagonist(s) becomes apparent from the opening shot, and escalates to jarring levels, almost too much to bear, by the film’s end.
Adam (Andrew Scott) and Harry (Paul Mescal) are the sole residents of a developing resident building. They quietly observe one another from across the gaping maw of several floors which separate them, until a drunken Harry braves the gap, and knocks on Adam’s door.
Though shy and awkward at first, Adam soon begins to answer Harry’s flirtatiousness, and the two embark on a romantic relationship carried out in the night quiet.