西班牙家庭题材影片。Leo，Alicia与Dafne原本是一个普通幸福的家庭，直到妻子Alicia突然死于癫痫病发作，留下了Leo独自带着幼女生活，性格保守、惧怕同性恋的他对接下来发生的一切不知所措。
阿切罗·马尼亚斯是从演员转行的导演，2000年他的处女作《弹丸男孩》在西班牙国内引起巨大反响，获得了最佳影片在内的四项戈雅以及一项欧洲电影奖，2002年的第二部作品《十一月》是一部风格怪诞的政治讽刺喜剧，同样获得了成功，本片是他时隔8年的新作，讲述了一个“关于角色互换和挑战观众偏见”的温情故事。马尼亚斯本人15岁开始演戏，他的母亲、演员Paloma Lorena也参与了本片的演出。马尼亚斯的处女作曾经发掘了新生代中演技最为出色的童星胡安·何塞·巴勒斯塔，本片他则再度同扮演小女儿的四岁小演员卢希亚·费尔南德兹合作。

Leandro, an unemployed mason and his friend, Tocho, attempt to rob a tobacconist in the Vallecas district of Madrid, but Mrs. Justa, the tobacconist, impedes it alerting the neighbors who notify police. Inside the shop, the confrontation between the two friends and their 'hostages', the tobacconist and her niece Angeles, is relaxing, and a budding sympathy arises between them.

A mix of characters and actions create only a semblance of a plot in this confusing tale of intrigue, undefined crimes, and incest. A newspaper reporter is working on a story about a criminal serving time in jail. He interviews the prisoner, has an affair with the criminal's daughter, and also spends some time in bed with his editor's wife. His amorous life is an adjunct to his searching out the details of the prisoner's case -- though tragedy strikes before the journalist can wrap everything up. In the meantime, it becomes clear that the daughter and imprisoned father had an incestuous relationship, raising more questions than answers.

1976 film by Ricardo Franco

Set in a crumbling Spanish mansion, this gloriously comic and gothic story follows the fortunes of an innocent young priest as he enters a world of moral decadence, sexual intrigue and corruption of an aristocratic family in nineteenth-century Galicia.