Juan Echanove

In 2001, sisters Diamond and Tionda Bradley vanish from their Chicago apartment. Twenty-two years later, Detective Pam Childs gains access to the family, revisiting critical scenes, interviews, and inconsistencies -- leading to a shocking admission.

Leo, a middle-aged writer of popular romantic novels who writes under a pseudonym, despises her own work. At home she is also miserable. Her husband, who works overseas, is distant both physically and emotionally. Yet the appearance of a new editor offers an opportunity for Leo to reassess her life.

Middle-aged lady-killer Juan scratches out a living, getting by on his charisma and his gambling skills. But all bets are off when Caty arrives on the scene professing to be his daughter from a tryst two decades earlier.

Set in 1940s Spain, The Passion Within, tells the true story of Spain's most famous bullfighter Manuel "Manolete" Rodriguez Sanchez (Brody) and his obsessive love for actress and social beauty Lupe Sino (Cruz) who becomes the love of his life, until his untimely and tragic death in the bullring at the age of 30. Lupe and Manolete couldn't be more different from each other. She is in love with life and he is in love with death. Their love for each other is passionate, explosive, dangerous and ultimately tragic. On the last day of Manolete's life, after a bitter argument with Lupe, he enters the bullring for the last time filled with sadness and rage. He has lost the will to fight. Having shown Manolete how to live, Lupe ultimately also shows him how to die.