Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were friends in their youth, going on to creative success – Ingrid as a novelist, and Martha as a war reporter – but separated by the circumstances of life.
After years of being out of touch, the pair reunite and rekindle their companionship in an extreme but strangely sweet situation, where Martha asks Ingrid to assist her with a complicated, deeply personal request.
Pedro Almodóvar makes his English-language feature debut with The Room Next Door, adapting Sigrid Nunez’s acclaimed novel ‘What Are You Going Through’.