What would it look like if a female CEO of Goldman Sachs made a movie? It might look a lot like the new erotic thriller Fair Play, written and directed by Chloe Domont and distributed by Netflix. Fair Play follows the relationship of Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) and Luke (Alden Ehrenreich), coworkers at an exclusive financial firm who must keep their relationship a secret. Luke is led to believe he is next in line for promotion, but the position goes to Emily, setting off a tragic sequence of events all of them rooted in his bruised ego. The tragedy is Luke’s insecurity, and the film revolves around what Domont calls “male fragility,” the Me Too counterpart to “white fragility.” In this world of male/white fragility the worst harm is making another “feel small.”

The film tells the story of Luke and Emily and their rise (for Emily) and fall (for Luke) in the world of high finance. Despite their attempt to keep their relationship out of the workplace, Fair Play shows the impossibility of separating interpersonal dynamics from corporate ones. Domont graphically makes this point by organizing the film around three scenes of blood exchange. When the film opens, Luke is the epitome of male security — even going down on Emily while she’s menstruating. In this moment of intimacy, an engagement ring spills out of his pocket, sealing their relationship in blood — how can she say no to a guy like this?

But like every great noir, this bond is doomed to failure. There’s a rumor going around the office that Luke is up for a promotion, but it turns out that Emily gets “his” promotion. Soon enough Luke’s true colors emerge — he is, in fact, an insecure asshole. Luke’s behavior becomes increasingly unhinged as petty jealousy takes over. In a crucial scene (the second blood exchange in the film), Luke betrays Emily, offering his blood to the CEO of the firm, Campbell (Eddie Marsan), rather than his fiancée, Emily who is now his boss.