Synopsis

Mark is a 34 year old gay man, living in West Hollywood. His stutter and his shyness cause him to have few friends and no love life. His lonely time becomes filled with his at home job, his rose garden, and his music.

But all that is about to change.

Mark meets Paul, a musician looking for fame and fortune in LA. Paul and Mark are attracted to each other at once. After a few minutes of conversation, Paul asks Mark out for coffee, but Mark’s shyness causes him to decline.  Mark leaves, but the meeting triggers something in him. He begins writing a song that expresses his hopes and dreams of finding someone to love. The two men run into each other again the next day and make a date for the next week, but forget to exchange phone numbers.

 David is a bartender at the same club that Paul performs at. He is also Mark’s upstairs neighbor.  David has made a bet Tommy, the bar owner, that he can seduce Paul. On the first try, Paul rebuffs David’s advances. Later, David hears Mark playing the song he wrote. Thinking he might be able to get to Paul and seduce him with music, David talks Mark into letting him borrow the music to show to a friend, but makes a copy and gives the music to Paul as his own.

When Paul plays it during his show, audience reaction is enthusiastic. Fran, another neighbor of Mark’s and one of his few friends, and her girlfriend Julie are in the audience and are impressed. Fran convinces her boss, Mr. Nichols, a talent agent, to listen to his show, which he does, also impressed. Paul is offered a contract, but Nichols wants Paul in his office the next day. Because of that, Paul never shows for his date with Mark.

David eventually wins his bet with Tommy, complete with DVD of the seduction, then David convinces Paul that the music he wrote was the reason why the agency was interested in him and that Paul is now in his debt.

Paul and Mark run into each other again at the market and Paul invites him to his showcase concert. When Mark hears his song being played in the concert and later finds Paul in David’s condo when he goes up to confront David on the theft of his song, it starts a chain of events that have consequences for all involved.