Will they? Won’t they? Should they? Shouldn’t they?. Sammy is a fiercely independent young woman who is done with dating apps, while Tom is a man with a warm heart who carries his fair share of baggage. On a night out, the two strangers meet, and sparks fly as they sing their drunken souls out in a karaoke booth. The strangers agree to have a no strings attached affair for three weeks. However, the simple plan of a few weeks of great sex, pasta in bed and first names only, is complicated by the growing feelings between them. But Sammy soon makes a shocking discovery that there is another woman in Tom’s life… his six-year-old daughter Ellie. Smothered, is a not so typical rom-com tale of two worlds colliding where romance blossoms but the pressures of modern dating linger.