After Manuela’s teenage son Esteban is tragically killed, she seeks out Esteban’s biological father, a transgender woman. On her journey, Manuela is met with adversity, kinship, and more emotional pain, but she may yet get a second chance.
It's enough to make your head spin, but Almodovar, whose mastery of the medium has never been more assured, gives you plenty to think about, ultimately grounding the dizzy whirl of his idiosyncratic fictional world in a story that feels not just true but universal.
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