An Affair to Die For

An Affair to Die For is a 2019 English-language Spanish-Italian thriller film directed by Víctor Garcia. Plot Holly, a successful professor, travels to Aspen for a rendezvous with her 27-year-old former student and current lover Everett Alan. She puts on the blindfold left for her and chains herself to the headboard of the bed using the handcuffs left for her. She is unaware that the man who next enters the room is her policeman husband Russell Pierpoint, who has sex with her. She enjoys the sex until it becomes too rough but he ignores her pleas to stop and continues, leaving her crying afterwards. In the next room Russell tells Everett, who is bound and gagged, that he is holding Everett's wife Lydia and daughter Jessica hostage, then leaves after instructing Everett to lie to Holly and say that he was the one who just had sex with her. Everett unlocks the handcuffs and Holly berates him for his behavior while she dresses to leave, but Russell calls Everett and instructs him not to let Holly leave. Russell then calls Holly, telling her that Everett is a dangerous man responsible for the disappearance of multiple women and pleading with her to escape somehow. Over the course of the day the two are manipulated by phone to pit them against each other for revenge. Holly slips Dave the bellboy a note that she is in trouble but Russell finds it and sends back Lydia's severed ring finger to Everett as punishment. Russell advises Everett to use pills he has left in the room to drug Holly, but Holly also uses her own supply of pills to drug Everett. Everett whispers to Holly that her husband Russell is holding his wife and daughter hostage and set up the entire encounter, then both fall unconscious from the drugs.