Overview
When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.
Cast
- Gael García Bernal as Ángel / Juan / Zahara
- Fele Martínez as Enrique Goded
- Daniel Giménez Cacho as Padre Manolo
- Lluís Homar as Sr. Berenguer
- Francisco Maestre as Padre José
- Francisco Boira as Ignacio
- Juan Fernández as Martín
- Nacho Pérez as Young Ignacio
- Raúl García Forneiro as Young Enrique
- Javier Cámara as Paca / Paquito