Broken Embraces

Penélope Cruz stars as an actress who sacrifices everything for true love in "Broken Embraces," a story of love, dominated by fatality, jealousy, the abuse of power, treachery, and a guilt complex. The story follows a man who writes, lives, and loves in darkness. Fourteen years before, he was in a brutal car crash on the island of Lanzarote. In the accident, he not only lost his sight, he also lost Lena (Cruz), the love of his life. The man uses two names: Harry Caine, a playful pseudonym with which he signs his literary works, stories, and scripts, and Mateo Blanco, his real name, with which he lives and signs the films he directs. After the accident, Mateo Blanco reduces himself to his pseudonym, Harry Caine. If he can't direct films, he can only survive with the idea that Mateo Blanco died on Lanzarote with his beloved Lena. (Gary Reber)