El Deseo

Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.

A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.

After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.

A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.

After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.

A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.

An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.

A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.

Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.

The story of two mothers who bond in unexpected way after giving birth the same day.

After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events involving her estranged daughter.

After leaving jail, Víctor is still in love with Elena, but she's married to the former cop -now basketball player- who became paralysed by a shot from Víctor's gun...

A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.

An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him.

A young woman conceals the fact of her terminal cancer to live her life with a passion she never had before.

When it appears as though the end is in sight, the pilots, flight crew, and passengers of a plane heading to Mexico City look to forget the anguish of the moment and face the greatest danger, which we carry within ourselves.

Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

A singer returns after 15 years abroad to perform in Madrid and finds her 27 y.o. daughter married to one of her mom's ex-lovers.

Kika, a cute cosmetologist, prepares Ramon for funeral when he revives. He proposes to the much older Kika who has his dad as lover. Did Ramon's dad murder his mom? What about the escaped rapist and the PSYCHOlogist video reporter?