Lily wakes up together with nine other young women in an artificial facility in the middle of the desert. Soon ten men arrive - if they survive the march on foot through the desert. They are to join together in pairs, one woman and one man each. Everyone is young and beautiful, everyone wants to escape the real world for a while. Countless cameras broadcast every movement, invisible producers give instructions and set up rules that must be followed at all costs. The candidates compete against each other in meaningless challenges, slowly blurring the boundaries between desire and despair. What does Lilly have to do to win? What price does she pay for it? What alliances does it forge? And what happens to the losers, who are gradually eliminated?

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Included tropes: Forced Proximity, Rivals to Lovers, One Be

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