Read My Hands

British Sign Language interpreter Ben Cooper thrives in the background, where keeping quiet is the entire point of the work.

That composure fails him only in one respect: a one-sided crush on his sole client, Simon Azie, a deaf PR agent whose career-first poise usually turns celebrity disasters into charm.

After Simon is tagged in an anonymous sex tape shot at a closeted client's country estate, the agency moves to cut him loose before the scandal stains its name.

Afraid their professional lives will be pulled apart, Ben proposes a reckless fix—claim that he is the unidentified other man.

Either they fake a relationship, or both careers are finished.

Simon, who has always shied from commitment, then plays boyfriend more convincingly than Ben ever allowed himself to imagine, which surely still means nothing.