The story is about love, hate, and lust at the same time. The characters are unable to understand what they want the most out of life. Penelope Ward shows the inward desires of the human being and their developing hatred toward a permanent relationship. The story begins with a nerd and a playboy in chase of a girl named Amber. The nerd steals the show this time and marries Amber but the marriage fails in a big way after a while. The story is narrated in the first person by the boy who wanted Amber more than anything in life thus when Rory leaves her and the playboy gets a chance to go to Boston on a contract job.
For all these years he still had contact with Amber and thus when he goes to Boston where she lives after her ruined marriage life she gladly gives him a room in her house for a few days. She has turned into a woman who hates men now but inwardly the desire of sex takes her to online dating and trying to satisfy her in a different way. The curiosity was aroused when he saw her computer one day secretly he wanted to have a relationship with her but how.
This question made him think and do something which he never thought he could do i.e pretending to be a male whore and making her think that he is ready for her physical pleasures and wants to take place of the gentleman nine in her life. Sebastian York, Andi Arndt have narrated the characters very accurately their feeling are depicted through their tone and dialogue delivery.
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