Pillion (2025)

In suburban Bromley, Peggy and Pete Smith are actively looking for a boyfriend for their still at-home son, Colin, in wanting to see him happy, especially important for Peggy in her short time left in having a terminal case of cancer. Already meek to begin with, Colin's lack of self-esteem is only exacerbated by working in one of the most despised professions: parking enforcement. Leading an otherwise straight-laced life, including singing in a barbershop quartet with Pete, Colin, while on an arranged date setup by Peggy just before Christmas, Colin is picked up by a biker, Ray. A traditionally handsome and masculine man of few words, Ray asks Colin out for Christmas evening. Their Christmas encounter ends up being one directed by Ray in all aspects. Before Colin knows it, he has entered into a dom-sub relationship with Ray, where Colin has to go with the flow of what Ray does and says without question. That non-questioning means that Colin doesn't even know what Ray does for a living or what he does during the time they're apart. While Peggy was happy that Colin found a man, even with a biker, she is less enthralled by what little she and by association Colin knows about Ray. Eventually, Ray pulls Colin into his social circle of biker dom-sub couples. While professing to love Ray, Colin outwardly is looking for more than what is in the relationship, that extra arguably closer to traditional forms of love that include affection and the "take" that matches the "give". How Colin decides to manifest how he is feeling and in interacting with Ray's social circle will not only affect what happens between him and Ray, but may give him a clearer perspective of what his form of true love is.