All About My Mother (1999)

manuela, a nurse, loses the only son in a car accident, esteban: it was the birthday of the boy, a seventeen-year-old aspiring writer, and together they went to the theater to see huma rojo in a performance of 'a tram called desire' . shocked by the pain, manuela decides to return from madrid to barcelona to track down the former partner, esteban, a transvestite who has not seen for eighteen years and who calls himself lola. taking refuge from agrado, a transsexual of whom she was once a friend, she finds the actress huma rojo, desperate for the addiction of her lover nina, and meets the young sister rosa, who discovers she is pregnant and hiv-positive.