SYNOPSIS:

Matthew Mengele lives a quiet, buttoned-up life: making espresso each morning for his wife Rosie before vanishing into a mundane office job. But when a sext meant for someone else lands in his inbox, Matt’s carefully managed world begins to crack. What follows is a slow, surreal spiral through betrayal, race, repression, and masculinity as Matt uncovers Rosie’s hidden life: not just an affair, but an entire identity kept from him. Unable to process the emotional shock, Matt turns to unlikely confidants, a sex-positive retail worker and a disillusioned coworker, as his internal chaos festers. Confronted by his own religious upbringing, racial anxieties, and sexual insecurity, Matt is forced to face a question: is he angry because he was betrayed, or because he was never truly seen? Societal Advantages is an intimate character study about power, projection, and the illusions we call love.

MONSTER OF LOVE