Gloria (Carmen Maura) is a typical Madrid housewife living in an anonymous, run down apartment block. Gloria has her problems. Her slovenly and disinterested taxi driver husband is obsessed with an ex Nazi chanteuse; of her two sons, one has discovered the benifits of dope dealing while the other is a promiscuous homosexual conducting affairs with his school mates' fathers; her self reliant mother in law keeps a pet lizard called "Money". Things couldn't get much worse until a bizarre set of incidents leads Gloria to a murder by ham-bone and a labyrinthine plot to forge Hilter's diaries! Pedro Almodovar's fourth feature is a sharp, erotic and scabrously funny black comedy that displays a warm affection towards it's characters and a surprisingly happy ending.