In the murky blue light of a Toronto strip club, Francis Brown, a regular grieving the loss of his daughter, buys the company of dancer Christina. Far from a series of transactional erotic exchanges, their ritual meetings express a shared intimacy based more on loss and grief than superficial thrills. As the pair’s fates intermingle with those of the club’s owner and DJ, the film’s complex geometry is revealed in a thrilling sequence of events that shows Egoyan at the height of his dramatic powers.