Moving to Barcelona, Manuela, a single mother, who lives in Argentina with her teenage son and works hard to support him, whose life flips around, when he died, as she moves to find his father to tell him about the death of his son, the thing that brings terrible for her.
Like Almodovar's first masterpiece, Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown, this vivid melodrama, the auteur's second masterwork, celebrates the resilience and camaraderie of women under duress.