18-year-old Erin is bisexual - she just doesn't know it yet. A fresher at university and determined to embody the Cool Girl archetype, it's not long before a chance Tinder match reels this very modern ingenue into a world of BDSM and power-play that consumes and intrigues her as much as it stresses out her friends. And when that all falls apart, where could there possibly be left to rebound except the even murkier realm of sugar baby dating?

Crashing through a sordid world of transactional encounters, late nights, sexual awakenings, and more bad decisions than you can shake a stick at, Cacoethes is the story of one queer young outsider's quest for - well, she's not quite sure, actually.