Duration: 128 mins
Content:
"Harry Caine" (Llui's Homar) is a blind writer who shares his life with his agent Judit (Blanca Portillo) and her adult son, Diego (Tamar Novas). Slowly, events in the present begin to bring back memories of the past. Harry hears that millionaire Ernesto Martel (Jose' Luis Go'mez) has died; a young filmmaker, Ray X, appears and turns out to be Martel's son, Ernesto, Jr. (Rube'n Ochandiano). After Diego is hospitalized for an accidental drug overdose in a Madrid nightclub, Harry collects Diego from the hospital and looks after him to avoid worrying his traveling mother. The main storyline is told in flashback as Harry reluctantly tells Diego a tragic tale of fate, jealousy, abuse of power, betrayal, and guilt.
The story picks up where it began in 2008: Harry shares his birthday dinner with Judit and Diego. While eating Judit becomes drunk on gin and, stricken with guilt, confesses to Harry/Mateo that she sold out to Martel in '94 because of her fury at Harry for abandoning the film to run away with Lena, and of her involvement in providing Martel the phone number of the hotel in Lanzarote where Lena and Mateo were hiding. She also confirms that Martel sabotaged the release of Chicas y maletas by using the worst takes from each scene in order to destroy Mateo's reputation. The next morning she reveals to Diego that Harry is actually his father...a fact he is unaware of. Having exorcised some of his demons, Harry decides to return to his life as Mateo Blanco. Though believed lost, the original reels of Chicas y maletas and Ernesto Jr.'s camcorder footage are recovered - Judit had ignored Martel's order to destroy them and instead hid them away. Mateo and Diego re-edit the film for its long-delayed release as the director envisioned it.
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