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Raimunda, her sister and their daughter navigate work, poverty and a sudden death in a working-class corner of Madrid and rural La Mancha. When the mother they believed dead reappears, the reappearance forces buried family history into the open, including a long-hidden sexual abuse and the death that answered it.

The film sits well in a therapist's library for its treatment of mourning across generations, the way a returning figure can carry what was never grieved, and the slow reparation of the bond between mother and daughter after a wound that could not be spoken. It won Best Screenplay and Best Actress at Cannes in 2006.