Him or Gym

Two dysfunctional and homosexual married men, aged 23 and 25, try to come to grips with an intermingling of family life and work life. Being recently married and at last moving into a house together, this was a new barrier that they had to overcome. Due to the recent pandemic of Covid-19, both men lost their accounting jobs at the firm in which they met. Struggling to make ends meet, they decided to capitalize on the pandemic through a passion they always held dear – weightlifting. They began a business of manufacturing home gym equipment which in no time at all began booming due to gym closures. Given the surplus of orders from their small company, they are overwhelmed and it ultimately consumes their daily lives. 

As days turn into weeks and weeks turn into months, they begin to adapt to their new daily regime. Initially, while being closer than ever in terms of physical proximity, they were more distant than ever emotionally and intimately. In the beginning, they stressed so much about their work burdens such that during sex, they both were thinking about shipping out all their orders on time rather than one another. However, after enough time at home elapsed, they begin to realize that their true passion – while being successful – was each other. The death of a close friend due to Covid brought endless grief on both of them, who then realized it was each other that they needed most in times of the greatest stress rather than the money they made from their orders. 

With this new mindset of being a “power couple”, they take a new step into their industry and succeed together. With home gym equipment shipments still dialing in, the couple sees not only monetary success but also success in their relationship and most importantly, in bed. 

This film will be a comedy-drama that will focus on interpersonal relationships during a time of crisis such as the global pandemic of Covid-19 in which individuals are forced to work from home. The film explores the question of what benefits interpersonal relationships more – a number in a bank account or one another. The characters begin to realize that even though they are not struggling financially as much as the rest of their counterparts, they put their relationship on the back seat. As work and home life became inextricably bound, both men became trapped in an endless cycle of manufacturing said equipment and shipping out in an orderly fashion. When they fell down, they realized the other had been spotting (the act of supporting another person while exercising) the entire time. The moral of the story herein is this: money truly does not buy happiness and family always comes first. As they have achieved what they wished for and dreamed of together, they are able to reflect on world affairs and they saw how they were able to find a solution to their financial crisis while others were not as fortunate. Now as a happy, successful couple, they decide to donate their money and time to helping others adapt in these hard times and providing financial relief and advice to those in need. As a cliffhanger, they adopt a child and face a whole new set of struggles maintaining this balance between familial and work life.