Small-time hustler Codey Steele owes big-time hustler/strip club owner Seth Gamble six figures, but he has an out: a cell phone video of mechanic Isiah Maxwell standing up for overworked PA Anna Claire Clouds as she's abused by spoiled online performers (Jewelz Blu, Ryan Driller, Gizelle Blanco) has gone viral. People want to know more about Maxwell and Steele is ready to sign him: "This kid, he's got clout. And you know what that means: that means endorsements, that means appearances ... we can put this kid's face on hoodies and sell them for $300 a pop."

Gamble goes along: "I was gonna break your legs. But if you get all my money in full ... I'll let you keep walking." But once Steele leaves, Gamble tells a henchman to rough him up anyway, as Gamble flashes back to his own troubled history with Clouds, including a loving bed bounce before turning on a dime and ordering her, "Get out of my house!" at gunpoint. 

And that's just Part One. Of Eight. 

Clouds traces Maxwell back to his garage workplace, calling him "Superman" and driving him to a job, to the upset of Maxwell's comely co-worker Adria Rae. On the road, Clouds flirts with Maxwell, recording it on her cell phone—but he's not interested, leading her to dispiritedly say, "Drop me off here ... thanks for everything, Mr. Mechanic." After he drives, off, she pulls a suitcase from behind a hedge and walks off down the street. 

Steele approaches a despondent Jewelz Blu ("I've been cancelled!") and tells her he can restore her reputation ... once he finds Maxwell. When Steele finds Maxwell at the garage, he's unimpressed ("Do I know you?") and Steele lays on the pressure: "You could own a whole chain ... of these places."

Maddy May sees Clouds walking down the street and takes pity on her ("Get in ... where you going?") and finds they have a mutual connection with Gamble, now that May has a gig as a stripper at Gamble's club. Clouds confesses that she was Gamble's girlfriend, but "I fucked it up. I. Fuck. Everything. Up." May reassures her, restoring her self-confidence to the point of Clouds whispering, "I can’t fall in love with you..."

To which May snaps, "Then don't."

When Steele takes Maxwell to a promo party for Gamble's Luxe Trend operation, Clouds kiboshes Maxwell's conversation with executives by sweetly asking, "Isn't this the company that's being sued for racial discrimination right now?" and when Steele tries to bum-rush her out, Maxwell's protective instinct kicks in and he leads her away. Maxwell has his own score to settle with Clouds—Rae saw the flirtation video—and she apologizes. When she invites him to "ditch this shark party" with May along, he says, "We're gonna need a bigger boat," and they go back to his place, a high-rise penthouse Steele got for him: "He said my old place was 'bad optics.' It came furnished. It's all a façade."

Later that night, Clouds disentangles herself from the sleeping threesome and spots a bedside picture of Rae with Maxwell at the garage. "It’s the only thing here of mine," he tells her. Clouds spills to Maxwell that May is involved with Gamble and he's a bad guy, with "his hands in everything all over L.A. A sexy Tony Soprano or something ... soft touch, iron grip. Once a Jacky's Girl, always a Jacky's Girl. The only way out is to break his heart, like I did. I'm lucky he didn’t kill me, but I'm basically blacklisted." 

Desperate to sign Maxwell to a contract, Steele gets computer whiz Ella Reese to deepfake Maxwell signing up on a video call to Luxe Trend, while Gamble's squeeze Melissa Stratton threatens Clouds to back off Maxwell "or next time it won’t be me finding you in an alley." And with the Blu/Driller/Blanco trio still trying to recover their lost followers, Blu has a brainstorm: "I'd rather negative attention than no attention at all. We need a scandal. We need something really juicy to really get the likes flowing in ... I have it. A sex tape." With Steele's encouragement, they go along. But the joy is short-lived when Gamble calls Steele and aims him toward Maxwell's social-media post where he announces he's not signing with Luxe Trend. 

The separate stories come together when May tells Gamble she's quitting the club and going back home, softening the blow with a three-way with Gamble and Stratton, followed by Maxwell confronting Gamble with an angry, "I don’t work for you!" before Maxwell is confronted with the fact that he does work for Gamble. Clouds comes in, trying to get May away, and there is a confrontation with a gun before things come to a logical, albeit bittersweet, conclusion.

The production makes good use of dark, atmospheric night sequences and director Seth Gamble draws excellent performances from his actors. Clout received six nominations for the 2026 AVN Awards, including Grand Reel, Best Leading Actress for Anna Claire Clouds, Best Supporting Actor for Codey Steele, and Best Music.