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Pilar Castro

Penélope Cruz

Carmen Maura

Lola Dueñas

Blanca Portillo

Yohana Cobo

Chus Lampreave

Antonio de la Torre

Carlos Blanco

María Isabel Díaz

Neus Sanz

Leandro Rivera

Pepa Aniorte

Yolanda Ramos

Elvira Cuadrupani

María Alfonsa Rosso

Fanny de Castro

Eli Iranzo

Carlos García Cambero

Magdalena Brotto

Isabel Ayúcar

Concha Galán

Mari Franç Torres

Natalia Roig

Mila Espiga

Agustín Almodóvar

Luis Lattanzi

Valeria Vereau

Was Irene a ghost?

No; she was simply hiding in Aunt Paula's house since she faked her own death.

How does it end?

Turns out Irene (Carmen Maura), the mother, isn't dead, but has been hiding all these years in the aunt's house. She and Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) confront their past: Irene's husband slept with Raimunda and Paula is his daughter (ie. Paula is Raimunda's sister as well as daughter); Agustina's mother had an affair with Irene's husband and she was killed with him in the fire, which Irene started after finding out the truth about Raimunda's sexual abuse. Mother and daughter (Irene and Raimunda) are finally reconciled.Paula finds out what her mother did with Paco's body and Irene goes to take care of dying Agustina, who believes her to be a ghost.

What does the title mean?

It is the Spanish verb that means "to return". The V's should be pronounced halfway between the English V and English B, so it sound something like "bole-bare".