Oscar winning and highly acclaimed Spanish director, Pedro Almodóvar, tells the story of a man with two identities, Mateo Blanco and Harry Caine played by Lluis Hornar, one he was born with and one he has created to obliterate the emotional pain of 14 years ago, when he was in an accident on the island of Lanzarote where he lost his sight and the love of his life, Lena, played by Penelope Cruz. Now he lives as Harry Caine, a pseudonym for his literary works; with self induced amnesia of Mateo Blanco who he feels died in the car crash. Harry is an active, attractive blind man who has developed all his other senses in order to enjoy life. Fourteen years later, the retelling of this moving and terrible story to the young son of his friend Judi Garcia, played by Blanco Portillo unfolds the drama. “A rich, tangled and layered work whose lurid, sensual style -- and seething and ebbing score by Alberto Iglesias – is like lava cooling upon the volcano below.”