In intimate, beautifully wrought work, it reflects a new maturity in Almodovars work and is one of his best pictures. LA TimesA departure for Almodovar into full-blooded melodrama. Leo leads a secret deouble life as an author of romantic fiction. However her success as the best-selling Amanda Gris hasnt brought her happiness and things are getting worse. Her husband doesnt love her, her best friend is strangely distracted and her mother & sister are too busy bickering to notice that anythings wrong. Abandoned by her muse and seeking solace in the bottle since the collapse of her marriage, an unlikely rescuer sets her on a collision course to a new emotional entanglement