Matías takes a job coaching at a swimming club, and his employer offers him a second one on the side. Fernando will pay him to sleep with Fernando's wife and send back video of it. Matías takes that job too. Desire, the Mexican thriller that landed on Netflix on July 17 and went straight to number one on the US movie chart, sells itself as the story of a woman who risks her whole life on an affair. The affair had been arranged before she ever walked into it. Here is who killed Matías, what Fernando was actually buying, and how four people share a drowning and walk away from it. The Job Matías Was Hired to Do Fernando (José María Yazpik, familiar to Netflix viewers as the cartel boss in Narcos: Mexico) and Lucero (Ludwika Paleta) own the swimming club together and look, from a distance, like a couple who finished building their life years ago. She is a successful lawyer. He is calm, attentive, easy to be around. What the marriage no longer has is any heat in it, and Lucero is the ...
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