BAD EDUCATION - Directed by Pedro Almodovar

performs in a Casino in the same city where Enrique and he went to school.
The encounter between the three characters, in the short story, ends tragically.

Enrique Goded reads “The Visit” with great interest. He is moved by the first part, which deals with their childhood, his love story with Ignacio, broken up by Father Manolo who, in love with Ignacio, expels Enrique from school so as not to have to compete with him for Ignacio’s love. The second part, when Ignacio, who has now become Zahara, visits the school, which intrigues and disconcerts him, but also interests him.

He decides to adapt “The Visit” and make it into a film. When he tells Ignacio Rodrguez, whose stage name is ngel Andrade (he insists on being called this by his friends), explodes with joy. He only imposes one condition, that he acts in the film. Enrique doesn’t mind, but when Ignacio (ngel) asks to play the lead, the transvestite Zahara, Enrique tells him that he isn’t right for the character (he also doesn’t understand why). He is too masculine and too well built - physically he is just the opposite to play a character like Zahara. Ignacio (ngel) insists, he asks Enrique to trust him. Enrique replies that he finds it very hard to trust him and they end up having a violent argument. Ignacio (ngel) leaves and says if he doesn’t play Zahara there won’t be any film.

In the days following the argument, Enrique can’t get the mysterious visitor out of his mind. He decides to investigate further into the strangers visit, after all that’s a storyteller’s job, investigating his characters in depth in order to understand and portray them better. Enrique discovers that the attractive boy who came to ask for work is not Ignacio Rodrguez but an impostor who had access to the real Ignacio. He also discovers that the real Ignacio died three years ago, shortly after writing “The Visit”.
The shock of such a discovery increases when, a few days later, ngel Andrade (the false Ignacio) visits him again. He has shaved his beard and slimmed down a little. Enrique thinks he has come to apologize and to explain everything, but he hasn’t. The false Ignacio apologizes for the violent argument they had when they last met, and offers Enrique the film rights to “The Visit”, without imposing any conditions. He doesn’t say a word about Ignacio or mentions at any point that he is an imposter. He only asks to be allowed to audition for the role of Zahara. (Enrique listens to him in astonishment). He can see that ngel has already slimmed down and knows he has also started working in a gay bar in order to learn how to be a “queen”, as well as private lessons from Sandra, a transvestite who specializes in Sara Montiel.

Enrique auditions him, gives him the part and at the same time decides to make him his lover. He wants to know the impostor’s reasons for pretending to be Igancio and how much longer he will continue. He also wants to know how Ignacio, his old school friend died and he doesn’t care what price he has to pay for this adventure.

Many months of preparation go by. The first day of shooting “The Visit” arrives, and so does the last one. Enrique often has sex with ngel, but it is only physical. He doesn’t manage to discover anything about Ignacio’s death and Angel’s mystery remains intact.
However, on the last day someone visits the set and hides behind the film crew, watching without being seen.
When Enrique goes back to his office to gather up his things, he catches the mysterious stranger in there, rummaging through photos from the shoot. The visitor calls himself by his surname, Mr. Berenguer, but Enrique recognizes Fr. Manolo, dressed in civilian clothes and seventeen years older than the last time he saw him, the day he expelled him from school. Now it is Enrique who expels him from his office. But Mr. Berenguer remains motionless and asks him: “Don’t you want to know how Ignacio died and who killed him? Wouldn’t you like to know the identity of ngel Andrade, the actor in your film?” Enrique wants to know.

Driven by the same suicidal curiosity that led him to work with ngel Andrade whilst knowing he was an impostor, Enrique lets Father Manolo tell him the true story of Ignacio as an adult and as he listens he feels like the woman who threw herself into the pool of crocodiles and hugged them while they ate her.