The 2016 film , directed by Ben A. Williams and based on John Donnelly's stage play, is a visceral character study that explores the intersection of professional sports, toxic masculinity, and suppressed identity. Spanning a decade through three pivotal nights in three different hotel rooms, the film depicts the diverging paths of two English football players, Jason (Russell Tovey) and Ade (Arinzé Kene), after a single, impulsive kiss. The Cost of Ambition
We meet Jason and Ade as teenagers – raw, ambitious, on the verge of everything. Then one night, a kiss. Not a scandal. Not violence. Just a moment of vulnerability between two young men in a hyper-masculine world.