‘When did I become my very own competitor for your affections?’

Perhaps it really is an impression unusual to have a girlfriend and boyfriend both living in the same body, yet Kokoro doesn’t classify her relationship with Fiona and Martin as strange.

Kokoro rides the third rail, a dutifully submissive fan to both aspects of her genderqueer partner’s psyche. She will go home with Fiona during the night and she leaves the house with Martin the next morning. In between, Kokoro discovers that this dynamics of domination and submission aren’t always rooted in black leather. The emotional interplay, “this video game of wills,” as Fiona phone calls it, is a greater aphrodisiac than toy-shop trappings.