A woman teaching a third-grade class on Zoom asks her students to find an object in their kitchens that can double as a musical instrument. She walks around her apartment aimlessly while her students look. When everyone comes back, she unmutes a boy’s microphone to get him to share. Pornographic audio plays from his computer, which embarrasses him and makes him quickly exit the Zoom room.

A man is at a grocery store. He grabs various items and texts someone on his phone when one item is out of stock. In the midst of arranging this order, he gets another. He checks out, seals each order’s bag one by one, and stacks them in his car’s trunk, ready to drive in order to drop them off.

In the woman’s third-grade Zoom class, students pepper her with questions about the pornographic audio. She struggles to answer. She thinks back to some of the more confrontational and stressful moments in her school’s recent years. After class, she emails the principal in order to report what happened and ask for protocol. The principal doesn’t believe it, even as she describes it in clear detail.

The man drops off eight bags at someone’s house and marks the delivery’s completion on his phone. He has four more to complete, in neighborhoods that are predominantly liberal. It makes him recall his immigration status, how he’s still stuck through the process of citizenship. His lawyer thinks he should apply for asylum, which he does. In a few years, he may get his blue passport. For now, he completes deliveries.

The woman is driving through Los Angeles’ traffic to attend to her part-time job as a music tutor. She enjoys getting to ogle through houses that are much nicer than hers, which she does in traffic as she looks up the Zillow value of the house she’s about to go to. Soon, however, she gets a voice note from her mother about recent wildfires. When she tries to respond, she gets a text from the man—her partner—saying that he won’t be able to make the dinner party.

Later that night, the woman goes to the dinner party alone. The dinner party is hosted by her friend, whom she met on a music video set, at a time when the woman was still interested in music business. It’s been three years since they’ve met, and her ambitions for the industry have been squashed. At her house, the woman catches up with her friend and her husband, watching them cook lamb chops. The friend then shares that she’s looking for an ethnically ambiguous model for her commercial shoot, which the woman agrees to doing.

The woman shares that a boy was caught watching porn in her third-grade class. The friend and her husband then talk about how hard it can be to have school, work, life, and so on facilitated on Zoom. Saying that men are pigs, the friend tells her husband to show his WhatsApp group chat, which is full of pornographic content shared by men. The friend is repulsed by it, while the husband considers it a simple issue of societal want. The woman’s partner then comes in after completing his deliveries, asking what everyone’s talking about. They loop him into the conversation about pornography and sexual depravity. The husband mentions that he knows another woman who shoots porn with her husband and makes lots of money from it.

Later at night, slightly inebriated from the dinner party, the woman and man try to sleep, though they eventually have sex. The woman tells the man to record a video of her from his phone, which he does. He thinks about how he always goes along with what she does, how he generally has had a very compromising and accommodating attitude toward things after all he’s been through as an immigrant. After having sex, the woman takes his phone and watches the video. She says that they could start uploading their videos online for others to pay for, which he laughs at as a joke before going to bed.

The next day, the woman drives through Los Angeles again to tutor her student. She reminisces about how she ended up in the city as a result of her love for it nourished by media. At the grand house where her student lives, she tutors a boy for an hour, trying to get him to play some songs he’s practiced. Eventually, he says that he feels unwell. Before she can do something about it, he vomits over his piano.

The man is at the supermarket again for his deliveries. He thinks about how such a job is a stark contrast to the love for food which he had back in his country. Before finishing all his deliveries, he goes to get gas at a station which is right beside a houseless encampment. While filling up his car’s gas, he’s approached by someone asking for cash. He doesn’t have cash to give, though he offers to buy the houseless person food, which he rejects.

Later at night, the woman doubles down on her idea to upload their sex video to the internet and monetize it. She says that she can make lots of money from it without having to show her face, and he struggles to come up with an answer to it. Now undressed, the woman hands him a phone. He takes it and presses the record button.