Carmen Maura, returns to work with Almodovar for the first time in several years, as the mother of Penelope Cruz and Lola Duenas. In Almodovar's own words, 'Maura's character is a modern woman and a good mother, but she is desperately in love with a man who is far from being a saint. After her death, she returns to town for working out things she could not settle while being alive.'
