Paulina has lived in fear for years after being kidnapped and tortured by men working for an unnamed South American dictator. But when her husband brings home a new friend who may or may not be one of those torturers, she sees a chance to take her life back by any means necessary. Based on the atrocities of the Pinochet regime in Chile in the 1970s, Death and the Maiden is dark journey through trauma, trust and vengeance.