It is a slow film, similar to life. The plot provides a lot of food for thought: influence of childhood in someone's life, how we sometimes forget and sometimes are fortunate to remember our passion, how love and sexual pleasure adventures impact our lives, how our relationships with our mothers continue to impact and change us even after their death and last but not least how body and emotional pain are interconnected and how increasingly numb doctors, prescription and non prescription drugs are making people numb while occasionally triggering them remember and regain their source of passion by chance. The acting, directing and cinematography is like any other Almodovar movie - great.