"Sex is easy; Love is hard."

At a scrappy city bar where love, lust, and liquor collide, two brothers, a pregnant bartender, a bisexual waiter, and an alcoholic psychic stumble through a heartfelt tangle of hookups and hard truths — proving that when it comes to love, “trading up” never works.

SYNOPSIS:

TRADING UP

Brothers Stewart and Ryan run The Back Room, a gritty little bar tucked behind a parking lot where the drinks are cheap and the advice is worse. Stewart, the older one, lives by his golden rule — “Always trade up.” He treats women like stock options: short-term, high yield, zero commitment. Ryan tries to follow his brother’s swagger but secretly still believes in true love.

Then everything goes sideways. Stewart meets Nicole, a whip-smart adrenaline junkie who doesn’t buy his charm and makes him work for every inch. Before long he’s jumping out of planes, skating off curbs, and literally climbing walls to impress her — and realizing that maybe “trading up” isn’t the same as growing up.

Ryan, meanwhile, falls for Annie, the girl-next-door who only took him home on a dare and accidentally caught real feelings. Just as both brothers start fumbling toward adulthood, their ex-bartender Tamara storms back into the bar — pregnant, pissed, and pretty sure one of them is the father. Cue the DNA test.

Add Cleo, a half-drunk psychic who reads tarot cards between shots, and Carl, a sweetly confused waiter questioning everything (including his sexuality), and the Back Room becomes ground zero for love, lust, and the morning after.

TRADING UP