Spain. Victor becomes besotted with a diplomat's druggie daughter and gains access to her flat.

Cops Sancho, who has a faithless (and beaten) wife Clara, and David see the young couple struggling and burst in. In the ensuing confusion, David is shot and paralysed. Victor goes to jail.

Out years later, he launches a revenge scheme involving the seduction of an all-too-willing Clara...

This erotic, crudely-scripted drama in typically irreverent style by director Pedro Almodóvar, but remains curiously unsatisfying.

It's like one of those films from France where the leading couple are destined to end up together but take a few years getting there.

Add an unexpected burst of violence at the end, and the director's usual elements of pseudo-sexy talk, and hot (though never explicit) sex, and you have a seething brew whose elements may entertain you, even if they never quite mix.