Carmen Giralt

José Sirgado est un réalisateur de films à petit budget dont la dépendance à l'héroïne déforme sa perspective du monde réel. Bien qu'il soit un individu dépressif et instable, son humeur s'améliore lorsqu'il reçoit les mystérieux films de Pedro, avec qui il partage sa passion pour le cinéma.

Federico is a cashier in a bank. He is bored with his life. But one day a body falls on his car. The suspected suicide victim is collected by a group of men that disappear in a car. Federico's life is about to change completely.

A girl who lives with her dealer cousin and her policeman boyfriend who is a policeman regularly transports drugs from Morocco for her cousin. As all of them smoke grass from time to time there is need for more. Deciding to take a friend of hers who has just left home down to Morocco for a transport she gets problems because it is the first time for her friend and this makes it difficult. But as all are very open-minded there is no problem they would not try to solve.

Gloria, femme de ménage débordée et dépressive, vit avec sa belle-mère, son mari et ses deux fils dans son appartement de 40m². Un jour, la pharmacienne lui refuse des amphétamines et là, Gloria craque... Pour son 4ème film, Pedro Almodovar nous emmène dans une escapade dans son monde underground : une comédie noire sur la famille, dans lequel il dirige l'une de ses actrices fétiches : Carmen Maura.

Sister Patrocinio is a nun who is stigmatized by Christ in her hands and feet. Although some believe in this mystical fact, others suspect of manipulation and take it to the court of justice.

Honorio Sigüenza is a man in his forties who has always lived under the yoke of his possessive mother. When his mother dies, he undergoes a radical transformation that will lead him to live numerous love affairs in the face of the disapproval of his cousin Veni, who wanted to marry him.