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A young man is vying to gain entry into an exclusive art school but the competition is fierce and his prospects look bleak. He has excellent talent but he lacks the resources to compete with the more affluent students who can afford expensive art classes with live models.
Struggling, he gives up when he realizes he can't find a model to pose nude without pay and accepts his future as a salaryman. His single mother, herself struggling with the chance that her son will miss this opportunity, gives him what he needs. She will be his model.
The arrangement is awkward at first but it gets him into the school and so she no longer has to pose. His new teachers are in love with the quality of his work but also love his model. They ask him who she is and he says she is a friend. They tell him she could make good money posing at the school but he declines. Later, when money is tight, he meekly mentions this to his mother and together they agree to go through with it but will maintain the charade that she is just a friend.
The story proceeds as a situational comedy where the two of them have to maintain the charade while at the same time dodging the issue from fellow students and coworkers who are either convinced they should "hook up" or think they already have.
