Early Reviewers

She does cold comebacks, not commitment.

Twenty-three-year-old stand-up comedian Astra Alderson has a career plan, a razor tongue, and exactly one thing missing from her act: relationship material. She's never had a boyfriend, never wanted one. So when sweet, hopelessly earnest poet Aaron Taylor bombs spectacularly opposite her at a Berlin comedy roast, Astra makes him an offer — a no-strings, strictly-for-research summer romance. She gets the jokes, he gets the girl. Nobody gets hurt.

There's just one rule: no falling in love.

Aaron breaks it immediately.

As one perfect Berlin summer unspools into stolen kisses, public stunts, and a relationship that's real in everything but name, Astra tells herself she's still in control. But when New York comes calling with the career break she's chased her whole life, she'll have to choose between the spotlight she's always wanted and the one person who ever got past her guard — before her fear of being vulnerable burns down both.

A witty, fast, achingly romantic comedy about the difference between imitating love and actually feeling it.