What Have I Done to Deserve This?

Pills, vacuum cleaners, and a marriage-as-prison. This explosive anti-melodrama about female exhaustion fuses social satire with irreverent slapstick in one of the most inventive moments of Almodóvar’s early period.

Synopsis

Gloria, a Spanish cleaning woman living a chaotic life, shares a cramped apartment with her grumpy husband Antonio, their two trouble-prone sons, and her ruthless mother-in-law. With little emotional support, Gloria is pushed to her limits when an argument with her husband leads to a macabre turn of events. As she struggles to deal with the consequences, a series of eccentric characters enter the scene, amplifying the madness.