Manuela is a nurse who oversees organ transplants in Madrid and lives with her teenage son Esteban. On his 17th birthday, Esteban is tragically killed after being struck by a car while chasing actress Huma Rojo for an autograph. Consumed by grief after authorizing the removal of her son’s heart for a transplant, Manuela decides to return to Barcelona and tell Lola, the boy’s father who now lives as a woman, about the death of the son she never knew she had.
Todo Sobre mi Madre
1999
14 years
104 min.
Fiction
Spain, France
Colorido
Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar
Affonso Beato
José Salcedo
Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz
Agustín Almodóvar, Michel Ruben
El Deseo S.A., Renn Productions, France 2 Cinéma
Alberto Iglesias
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