Editing All About My Mother (section)

==Plot==
Manuela is an [[Argentines|Argentine]] nurse who supervises donor [[Organ transplantation|organ transplants]] at Ramón y Cajal Hospital in [[Madrid]]. She is also a single mother to Esteban, a teenager who aspires to become a writer.

On Esteban's 17th birthday, he is hit and killed by a car while chasing after his favorite actress Huma Rojo for her autograph following a performance of ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'', where Huma portrays [[Blanche DuBois]]. Manuela allows her son's heart to be transplanted to a man in [[A Coruña]]. After tracking down the recipient, she resigns from her job and travels to [[Barcelona]] in search of Esteban's other mother, Lola, a [[Trans woman|transgender woman]] whom Manuela had kept secret from her son, just as she had never told Lola about the boy.

In Barcelona, Manuela reunites with her old friend Agrado, a warm and witty transgender [[sex worker]]. She also befriends Huma as well as her co-star and lover Nina Cruz, who is a heroin addict; and young [[HIV|HIV positive]] nun Rosa, who works in a shelter for battered sex workers and is pregnant with Lola's child. Manuela's life becomes entwined with theirs as she cares for Rosa during her pregnancy, works as Huma's personal assistant, or takes the stage as an [[understudy]] for Nina during one of her drug abuse crises.

On her way to the hospital, Rosa asks the taxi to stop at a park where she spots her father's dog, Sapic, and then her own father, who suffers from [[Alzheimer's disease|Alzheimer's]]. He does not recognize Rosa and asks for her age and height, but Sapic recognizes her. Rosa dies giving birth to a healthy boy; at her funeral, Manuela finally reunites with Lola. Lola (formerly known as Esteban) is dying from [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]] and talks about how she always wanted a son. Manuela tells her about their own son Esteban and his fatal accident. Manuela adopts Rosa's son, Esteban, caring for him at Rosa's parents' house. The father does not understand who Manuela is, and Rosa's mother introduces her as the new cook who is living there with her son.

Manuela introduces Esteban, Rosa's son, to Lola and gives her a picture of their own Esteban. Rosa's mother spots them from the street and confronts Manuela about letting strangers see the baby. Manuela tells her that Lola is Esteban's other parent, but Rosa's mother is appalled and blames Lola for causing Rosa's death, and fears that she will contract HIV from the baby. Deciding that she cannot live at Rosa's house any longer, Manuela flees back to Madrid with Esteban, and writes a letter to Huma and Agrado, apologizing once again for not saying goodbye like she did years before.

Two years later, Manuela returns to Barcelona with Esteban, who has remained healthy and AIDS-free. At an AIDS convention, she meets up with Huma and Agrado, who now run a stage show together, and tells them that she is returning to stay with Esteban's grandparents. When Manuela asks about Nina, Agrado reveals that Nina broke up with Huma, returned to her town, got married, and now has a son of her own.