


Raimunda must hide the crime and dispose of the body. Raimunda later confesses this is true and that Paula's real father is dead. Raimunda's husband, Paco (Antonio de la Torre) attempts to molest Paula, who kills him with a knife. The women return to Madrid, where they live. They stop by to visit a neighbor, Agustina (Blanca Portillo), who looks after Tía Paula and whose own mother disappeared the day Raimunda's parents died. The aunt is living in the past and knows only Raimunda. They also visit the home of their aunt, Tía Paula (Chus Lampreave). Raimunda (Penélope Cruz), her sister Sole (Lola Dueñas) and Raimunda's 14-year-old daughter Paula (Yohana Cobo) visit their home village of Alcanfor de las Infantas to clean the tombstones of their dead parents, who died in a fire four years earlier. Volver ("To Return") occurs in Spain in 2006.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. She brings Irene to her apartment, where secrets from the past are disclosed. The next morning, Sole travels alone to the funeral, and when she returns to Madrid, she finds her mother hidden in the trunk of her car. While Raimunda hides his body, Sole calls her to tell that their beloved aunt Paula has died. When they arrive home, Paula tells her mother that she killed her unemployed father Paco, who was completely drunk and tried to rape her. They return to Madrid, and after a hard day of work, Raimunda meets her daughter completely distraught at the bus stop waiting for her. Then they visit Irene's sister Paula, an old senile aunt that raised Raimunda after the death of her parents that insists to tell them that Irene is alive and living with her later, they go to the house of her neighbor and friend Agustina, who gives a support to Paula. Raimunda, her daughter Paula and her sister Sole travel from Madrid to the windy and superstitious village of Alcanfor de las Infantas to visit the grave of their mother Irene, who died years ago in a fire with her husband. After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.
