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Manuela, an Argentine nurse oversees donor organ transplants in Ram贸n y Cajal Hospital in Madrid聽and she is single mother to Esteban, a teenager who wants to be a writer.聽On his 17th birthday they go to the theater and after the show, Esteban tries to get the main actress'; autograph but is run down on the street and dies. Emotionally devastated, Manuela relocates to Barcelona in hopes of telling聽her son';s transgender father Lola, about the death of the son he never knew he had. He is nowhere to be found but Manuela does find an old friend, Agrado and meets up with a pregnant nun, Rosa. Together they form a life and become fast friends - until tragedy strikes again.
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.