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Dean McAllister is a master of charm, using his job at an old Bed-Stuy pharmacy to run a profitable side business. He lives by a motto of self- preservation, but when a woman named Millie Howard walks in, to pick up an expensive prescription Dean sees more than a target-he sees a chance to solve all his problems .
Millie, a sheltered Music History student from Brooklyn Heights, is desperate for a real love story her dying mother can witness before it's too late. When fate seems to throw the charismatic, well-dressed Dean into her life-at a subway stop, then a vintage record store-it feels like a sign.
He stages the coincidences. She falls for the performance.
As Dean is pulled deeper into Millie's quiet, elegant world, the line between the calculated lie and genuine affection begins to blur. For the first time, he sees a path to redemption, a future where he can finally be the good man she believes him to be.
But as his dangerous past catches up, the truth is exposed, shattering Millie's entire reality.
Now, with everything he loves on the line, Dean must make one last choice: save himself, or make the ultimate sacrifice to prove that while the relationship started with a lie, the love was terrifyingly, irrevocably real.
Some pills are too hard to swallow, and some prescriptions simply cannot be renewed.