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Gretchen Becker (Ed Wood, Hollywood Homicide) and Alex A. Quinn star in the erotic drama An Existential Affair, as Petra and Mark, a married woman and her younger lover who steal away together and conduct a series of kinky sex sessions in random hotels. When the partners grow increasingly jaded and routine clandestine sexual encounters prove too boring, Mark suggests that they both join a fetish club, which will enable them to repeatedly act out sadomasochistic fantasies. Over the years, the relationship runs hot and cold but persists nonetheless, until the two eventually attempt to transcend carnal desire, cultivating a normal, emotionally healthy and balanced relationship after years of mutual sexual depravity. Academy Award winner Martin Landau (Crimes and Misdemeanors, Ed Wood) co-stars.