Two women, once friends, have lost touch. Their paths separated. Not their friendship which has withstood the passage of time. Formerly journalists in the same editorial office, Martha (Tilda Swinton) has become a great war reporter, Ingrid (Julianne Moore), a successful writer.
The years have passed and the chances of life will bring about their reunion. Ingrid learns that Martha is terminally ill with cervical cancer. Martha has decided to shorten her suffering and asks Ingrid to accompany her in her last moments. Together, with the complicity of Damian (John Turturro), who was the lover of both, they will not face death but walk towards it, gently.
A cinema that frees itself from dogmas and beliefs
If the subject of the film may seem morbid at first glance, Almodovar’s cinema illuminates even the darkest moments of life. It breathes a wind of freedom that even the most absurd laws cannot contain. The word euthanasia will never be spoken, but that is what it is about, this possibility for those who wish it, to take the plunge, to be alive until the end of life.
