Jesse is on her guard. She wants to know why Taylor is dropping so many “compliment bombs”. Lately, their relationship has not been like that. They have been concentrating on work, being civil, but not really connecting. Taylor can be hot-headed, but she is not big on showing affection. It would be even less like Jesse to accept the love without question.
So, in between knocking back a bottle of wine and enjoying a night of passion (not without complications), the two women engage in a skirmish for emotional territory. In this “queer love story” by Patrick Maguire, they must recalibrate. Having put behind them a chaotic past (the playwright spares us the details), they have moved into a new flat so that Taylor can focus on her work with disadvantaged children.
