When acting students Sarah and David fall obsessively in love, their passion does not go unnoticed, least of all by their magnetic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley. His interference in their affair sets in motion a shocking spiral of events that reverberates through their lives for decades afterward. Trust Exercise lays bare our struggles to negotiate consent, to choose whom to believe, and to survive what we lose, gain, and never get over as we navigate our way into adulthood's mysterious structures of sex and power.