A visually immaculate and deeply moving autofictional melodrama from Academy Award-winner Pedro Almòdovar (All About My Mother), Bitter Christmas contemplates the ethics of adaptation and explores the thin line between reality and fiction. The film simultaneously tells the story of Raúl (Leonardo Sbaraglia), a filmmaker who serves as a thinly-veiled stand-in for Almòdovar, and Elsa (Bárbara Lennie), a filmmaker who in turn is a thinly-veiled stand-in for Raúl in an autofictional screenplay that Raúl is writing.