2004, Running time: 123 min
Directed by  Sergio Castellitto and starring Penelope Cruz (All About My Mother) and Sergio Castellitto (The Last Kiss)
Un Certain Regard - 2004 Cannes International Film Festival. Winner of Best Actress and Best Actor and nominated for 8 David di Donatello Awards.

This tense and emotionally resonant drama features a sensational, career-best performance from Penelope Cruz. A surgeon (Sergio Castellitto) recounts the crucial moments of his life as his own teenage daughter lies hovering between life and death on the operating table after a serious accident. As she lays stricken, he begins to confess to her a sordid and violent love affair that took place a few years ago with a derelict young woman (Cruz), a tender but damaged soul who worked as a hotel maid, and for whom Timoteo risked his marriage to Elsa, a beautiful journalist.