En près de quarante ans de carrière, Pedro Almodóvar est paradoxalement devenu l'un des meilleurs interprètes des subtilités féminines. Il faut remonter à son enfance dans la société matriarcale d'un village isolé de l'Espagne, sous la dictature franquiste, pour comprendre d'où lui vient sa passion des femmes. Celle-ci s'incarne avant tout dans la figure de la mère.

An epic journey through Don Quixote's troubled mind, from which five paths to the unknown are opened: to reason, to freedom, to love, to friendship, to adventure; although only three destinations await at the end of an imaginary and audacious existence: the narrative of the adventurous life of Cervantes; the survival of a legendary novel in these heathen times, when the one-armed gentleman is nothing but dust and bones; the memory of the living, writers and scholars, where both the tormented captive and the insane hero, are immortals beings and will be forever.

A poetic journey through the paths and places of old Castile that were traveled and visited by the melancholic knight Don Quixote of La Mancha and his judicious squire Sancho Panza, the immortal characters of Miguel de Cervantes, which offers a candid depiction of rural life in Spain in the early 1930s and illustrates the first sentence of the first article of the Spanish Constitution of 1931, which proclaims that Spain is a democratic republic of workers of all kind.