First Heat: Five Shorts of First-Time Encounters

1. Last Room Standing (Enemies to Lovers) – Two rival personal trainers at the same gym are forced to share the last available private room during a storm.

2. Late Load (Age-Gap) – A newly single 24-year-old moves into the building and keeps running into his quiet, silver-haired neighbor in the laundry room.

3. Shared Bed (Friends-to-Lovers) – Two best friends share a hotel room after a wedding. Years of unspoken tension finally break.

4. After Hours (Workplace Power Dynamics) – A junior associate and the firm’s newest partner are stuck working late on a big case. The closed office, the stress, and the way they keep almost touching…

5. Local Time (One-Night Stand) – A guy on a business trip picks up a local at a quiet bar.

Brandon moves to New York City for his first job out of college. Soon after, the company folds and he’s left stranded in a new, expensive city with no money or job. Enter Matthieu, a French fine arts collector with friends in high places who also owns the building Brandon just moved into.

Matthieu likes to throw extravagant parties for his best art customers. These parties have unusual entertainment: young men that strip for the enjoyment of the crowd. Matthieu offers Brandon an opportunity to solve his money woes with a voyeuristic peak of his young, toned body. Does Brandon have the courage to take it all off in front of a large crowd?