Agustina, from the village, is diagnosed with cancer, and while Raimunda comes to visit her, she asks Raimunda to ask her mother's ghost about what happened to her own mother. Raimunda then hides the body in the freezer of the restaurant which she has been looking after for an absent friend. Paula stabbed Paco and killed him after he tried to rape her, saying that he wasn't her real father.
In the meantime, Raimunda and her daughter Paula have another problem to deal with: that of the body of Paula's father, Paco. Sole tries to work out why her mother has been sent back, to which her mother replies it is because she needs to repair the relation with her other daughter, Raimunda. To disguise her identity, Sole's mother pretends to be a Russian woman and helps out her daughter in her hair salon.
Although clearly frightened by this prospect, Sole lets her mother stay with her. On returning to Madrid, Sole discovers that the ghost of her mother stowed away in the trunk of her car, bringing with her a suitcase in order to spend some time with her daughter. Sure enough, when Sole goes to her aunt's house, the ghost of her mother appears. While there, her aunt's old neighbor Agustina tells Sole that she used to hear the aunt talking to their dead mother, and that she has seen the ghost of her mother around the village. After their aunt dies, Sole makes the trip back to their hometown for the funeral. The film begins with two orphaned sisters, Raimunda and Sole, who are originally from a village called Alcanfor de las Infantas, but now live in Madrid. The plot of Volver is quite complicated and makes many turns and twists along the way that will grab your attention and keep you firmly seated. Although less over the top as some of Almodóvar's earlier films, Volver still contains a number of his characteristic film styles: farce, comedy, tragedy, melodrama, and magical realism. The film is set in the region of La Mancha in Spain, where Almodóvar was born, and deals with themes such as death, loneliness and tradition. The film was the 16th cinematic work by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, and stars a number of great Spanish actresses including Penelope Cruz and Carmen Maura. Volver is the award-winning film from 2006 about two sisters and their journey to discover their past after the untimely death of their parents.