Only Good Things is a slow-burn Brazilian pastoral romance set in 1984, following two men who fall into an intimate relationship after a chance encounter on a rural farm. The film frames same-sex desire as natural and worth protecting, while paternal authority and social pressure function as the obstacles rather than the moral center. That positioning earns the Leans Progressive label. The LGBTQ romance is explicit and affirmative, family structures appear repressive rather than supportive, and the 1980s rural setting amplifies how much external force is required to suppress personal feeling. Religion plays no notable role in the framing.