THE PENTHOUSE

Bruce Victor, a real estate agent, is a married man having an affair with Barbara. They are staying in a penthouse apartment that they've rented.

One morning, two men, Tom and Dick, who claim to be meter men, arrive but Barbara realizes their menacing intent when they lock the door and tie Bruce up to a chair. After she screams for help, Tom and Dick violate her with drugs and alcohol. Barbara then performs a striptease for them, and Dick later rapes her.

After Tom and Dick finally leave, Harry, a woman, who claims to be Tom and Dick's parole officer, arrives and brings them back up to make them apologize for what they did. However, the three tie Bruce and Barbara up to a chair, while they taunt them, saying that nobody will believe them if they tell anyone what happened in the penthouse that day. When the three leave, Barbara and Bruce manage to untie themselves. Bruce tells Barbara that they need to get out of there. Barbara, who now wants nothing to do with Bruce, shouts at him to go home. He leaves the apartment before Barbara makes her way out soon afterwards. Outside, they come across each other again before they part ways and walk off into the night.

After the tormentors leave, Bruce and Barbara free themselves. Barbara rejects Bruce, and they each leave the penthouse separately, parting ways outside.

The ending underscores the profound impact of the traumatic experience, fracturing the illicit couple’s relationship. Rather than offering traditional closure or comfort, the film leaves Bruce and Barbara isolated—emotionally and physically—suggesting their ordeal has altered them irreparably and that their affair cannot survive the events of that day.