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.

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
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This film treads the fine line between providing an entertaining and sexy piece of cinema with the identification of the serious issues of sexual abuse committed if not always by the clergy, then certainly under their auspices, in Franco's Spain. The story centres around aspiring actor "Angel" (Gael...