Plainclothes

New York, 1990s: Young undercover cop Lucas (Tom Blyth) is tasked with luring gay men into a trap whilst they are cruising and arresting them. When he meets Andrew (Russell Tovey, LOOKING), he discovers his own repressed feelings; and so the dangerous game turns into a quiet love story.

In her atmospherically dense feature film debut, which won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival, director Carmen Emmi uses the homophobic ‘plainclothes operations’ actually carried out in the 1990s as the starting point for a gripping story about gay desire, identity and betrayal.