Director Christopher Honoré told French gay website Yagg.com that he was interested in Sagat because he "redefines the notion of masculinity".

Being a lustful aspiring filmmaker, Omar sees touring upper New York as an opportunity to finally forget Emmanuel, indulging instead in disjointed recordings of his travel.

Emmanuel goes from demanding unsolicited attentions from an upstairs neighbor who also is one of his sex work clients (Dennis Cooper) to hosting sexual encounters with Omar's acquaintances.

After an intermission in which Emmanuel is confronted with his own collapsing lack of emotionality, he clumsily refuses the advances of an underage boy who claims to be in need (Andréas Leflamand), nor engages in a bisexual threesome in exchange for a tip he reluctantly accepts from a successful old friend (Kate Moran).

Finally, shortly before Omar's return, Emmanuel cries over the improvised mural he started days earlier on one of the walls in the apartment.