[3] The film, which features Alexander Lincoln and Alexander King, tells the story of rugby players Mark and Warren from a cash-strapped, divided gay rugby club unwittingly sleepwalk into an adulterous affair, but must conceal their growing feelings or risk destroying the club they love.

[9] Mark Newton is a new and relatively inexperienced player on the B team of a London rugby club for gay men.

While Richard, who frequently travels for work, is gone for a month, Mark and Warren decide to pursue the relationship.

Henry Michaels, another new rugby player, develops an alcohol problem due to his loneliness and unreciprocated feelings for Mark.

The team wins the game, and Mark abandons a drunken Henry to have sex with Warren at the hotel.

Mark's mother reveals that she took his father from a long-term relationship and felt extreme guilt for hurting his girlfriend.

His mother warns him that a relationship born from deception only breeds more and causes widespread collateral damage.

Mark's father argues that he cannot be preoccupied with not wanting to hurt other people's feelings or else he would miss out on the joyous things life has to offer.

At the club's New Year's Eve party, Warren sends a text to Mark while Gareth uses his phone.

[17] Pip Ellwood-Hughes in Entertainment Focus described it as "'In From The Side' offers a glimpse into the life of a group of friends who play rugby together and happen to be gay.