Pedro Almodovar triumphs again with an offbeat drama that explores the friendship of two men brought together under unusual but strangely similar circumstances. Benigino is a male nurse whose apartment overlooks a dance studio and he becomes infatuated with Alicia, one of the students. When Alicia is severely injured in an auto accident that leaves her in a coma, Benigno discovers she has been admitted to the hospital where he works, and he spends his days caring for a woman he now deeply loves but has barely met. Marco is a journalist who was assigned to interview Lydia, a celebrity female matador whose on-the rocks romance with another bullfighter; it has made her the focus of the tabloid press. During the bullfight that follows, Lydia is gored by the bull, and is now in a coma. Marco is certain his interview broke her steely concentration, and he spends most of his days at the hospital, convinced her injuries are his fault. Alicia and Lydia are both housed in the same ward of the same hospital, and in time Benigno and Marco become close friends, bonding in their shared devotion to women who cannot return their affection.