The central character in Volver is a family of women: mother and grandmother Irene, her daughters Raimunda and Sole, and Raimunda's 14-year-old daughter Paula. Irene is dead: She died with the girls' father in a fire many years ago in their birth village in La Mancha. Raimunda lives in Madrid with Paula and her shiftless husband, who is malevolent, irrelevant, or absent. Separated Sole runs an unlicensed beauty parlor in her apartment. Their old aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and speaks about her sister Irene as if she were still alive. When the aunt dies, some things change, many things return, and Raimunda's troubles become extremely complicated. She bustles through them with passionate determination, a hard-working woman pulled in fifty directions, making a life for her family, reveling in every emotion but self-pity.

Originally produced as a Spanish motion picture in 2006. "Sony Pictures classics"--Container. Special features: Audio commentary with director Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz [audio feature]; Making of "Volver" [featurette] (8 min.); Director and cast interviews and more1.

Cleaning the graves -- Aunt Paula -- Augustina -- Paco lost another job -- Paula's trouble -- Opportunity and a loss -- Freezing Paco -- Sudden opportunity -- Seeing ghosts -- Mother in the trunk -- Three women and a freezer -- Mother, the Russian assistant -- Close call -- Who's my father? -- Wrap party -- Restaurant for sale -- Agustina's wish -- Heart to heart -- How to get rid of your man -- Mothers and fathers -- Where's the Russian? -- Agustina on TV -- Raimunda's surprise -- Daughter's tears -- What really happened -- Family without men -- One knows what the other seeks -- Closure.