Plainclothes

Synopsis

At his mother’s New Year’s Eve party Lucas, a young police officer, loses a letter no one was ever meant to read. Amid the backdrop of the suffocating family party, the search for the letter unlocks memories of a past he’s tried to forget: months earlier, while working undercover in a mall bathroom, Lucas arrested men by seducing them. But when he encounters Andrew, everything changes. What begins as another setup becomes something far more electric and intimate. As their secret connection deepens and police pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, Lucas finds himself torn between duty and desire. Awards and Festivals: Ensemble Award, Sundance Film Festival 2025 Winner of American Indie Competition, Leiden Film Festival 2025 Won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at Provincetown and the Mermaid Award at Thessaloniki.