Currently, Sebastian Stan is enjoying his time in the pop culture spotlight thanks to The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. However, for those who might be disappointed in the current state of Bucky Barnes’s love life, Monday, a new romantic drama starring Stan and Denise Gough, unwittingly overcompensates. There’s a lot of sex in this movie, enough to feel like its the most defining aspect of its central relationship. Still, all of the pieces needed to heighten its main conflict are seemingly there, but they only lead to a melodramatic outcome that doesn’t suitably flow out of what came before.

The movie opens with a meet-cute: Chloe (Gough) drunkenly breaking up with a guy over the phone while partying in Athens, only to catch the eye of a local DJ, played by Stan. Sensing this connection, Mickey’s friend Argyris (Yorgos Pirpassopoulos) physically brings the two together and, within minutes, they’ve run out to have sex on a beach, only to be found naked and then arrested by authorities the morning after. (Director Argyris Papadimitropoulos certainly knows how to make Monday’s Greek setting feel like a consequence-free zone.)

After this awkward experience, they decide to connect properly while waiting for the police to return Chloe’s bag and keys. She’s an immigration lawyer set to return to the United States in a few days; he’s a former New Yorker who was in a band and tried to make it solo, only to end up as a DJ in Greece living in Argyris’s grandmother’s house. Carnal activities aside, what these two have in common is, they really don’t know what to do with their lives.

In terms of structure, Monday’s first act feels like its own indie project, as we get the “man pleading his love at the airport” scene right away, rather than in the climax. From there, it adopts something of a La La Land approach, time-jumping Mickey and Chloe’s relationship through various days (complete with giant-sized captions) to see how their lives have progressed, albeit with no indication if the shift from a Friday to a Wednesday are weeks or months apart. In between these jumps, we see the now-couple move Chloe’s things into Mickey’s place, have sex, get to know his circle of friends, have sex, deal with work complications, and even experience chaos at a house party. Oh, and then there’s more sex.

At first glance, Mickey and Chloe appear stable. Supposedly, each individual’s biggest obstacle is insecurity. Mickey, as Argyris and a former bandmate point out, only feels happy when he’s failing, suggesting a desire to intentionally sabotage this romance. Chloe, by contrast, is hung up on the presence of her ex, Christos (Andreas Konstantinou), whose wealth, connections, and arrogance frequently attempt to waltz back into her work life without expecting any pushback. The problem is how infrequent these moments feel amid all the naked action, implying highs and lows in their relationship but not really depicting them. It’s largely due to Stan and Gough’s easygoing rapport that these issues don’t raise any flags until you think about them in hindsight.

Perhaps Monday wants to imply that Mickey’s slacker-like nature and destructive impulses make him a time bomb when it comes to long-term commitment. It’s revealed early on that he has a son named Hector who’s only available for visits when his ex-wife permits it. Later, Mickey receives a form of guardianship that depends on him and Chloe remaining seemingly “stable” to see Hector, thus providing an actual test on whether he’s capable of maturing. Yet the actions that push their relationship into “threat of collapse” territory are way too contrived, creating sudden stakes out of drunken events and confessions, rather than making the lover’s flaws actually consequential to their future. The result, not to sound too sexual, is a climax that doesn’t leave any party feeling satisfied.

For all the times we may have decried the clichés of romantic dramas, they at least usually acknowledge there’s a chance of things falling apart if the partners don’t find a way to evolve alongside their sexual relationship. Monday certainly establishes that its couple enjoys being around each other intimately. I just wanted some more emotional intimacy mixed in with all the orgasms.