Trailer Park | The Skin I Live In

Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar reunites with Antonio Banderas after 20 years for a stylishly disturbing drama of obsession and plastic surgery.

Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr Robert Ledgard (Banderas), an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested in creating a new skin with which he could have saved her.

After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that is a real shield against every assault. In addition to years of study and experimentation, Robert needed three more things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea pig.

Scruples were never a problem. Marilia (Marisa Paredes), the woman who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice. And as for the human guinea pig...