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In a gorgeous villa in the suburbs, middle-aged plastic surgeon Robert? Regal (antonio banderas, antonio banderas) and marisa paredes, a loyal old servant, live here. In the past twelve years, he has lost his wife Gail and his daughter Norma (played by Anna Mei Na). A series of human tragedies completely subverted Robert's seemingly perfect life, and at the same time pushed his career and research into completely unknown fields. In a mysterious room in the villa, there lived a beautiful and lonely woman named Vera (played by Elena Anaya), who was both Robert's patient and his experimental object. The two of them have complicated and chaotic origins. Her face, carefully shaped by Robert's hand, is tightly intertwined with each other. ...

This film won the 20 1 1 Washington Film Critics Association Best Foreign Language Film Award.