spoiler alert sex and lucia be one of those movie that will grab me and would not let go . i saw it with the fascination a child have for her bedtime tale and i connect to it with my soul and viscera . the movie speaks of an island where one can change the course of one life and an island that float like a raft atop the sea and that be so full of cave a to be nearly hollow and so that each of the many hole you may fall into be really a tunnel that will take you somewhere else . this be the island of lorenzo the writer and lucia boyfriend . but to start at the start . lorenzo first book tell the story of a birthday boy who have make love to a stranger on a full moon night in the ocean . he be have a writer block while write his second . lucia and he become lover after lucia meet him at a coffeeshop and tell him she be in love with him and want to live with him . in parallel and we see a daughter be bear from lorenzo nameless union . in time and in his second novel and lorenzo will have to face his child and name luna after the full moon . his agent give him the plot of this story and where luna be bear and he find her in a park and and this lead to a house where a man live with two woman and and there be torment and passion and suffocation and lust . lorenzo get to spend a night with his child only if he succumb to the lust of sexy au pair belen while in an unforgettable scene he tell a bedtime story to his daughter in a bedroom furnish a if it underwater and just a belen dress herself up for seduction . luna dy before lorenzo can tell her that he be her father and but this death have to be a secret too . lorenzo be drag into a relentless trajectory of secret and depression and sleep pill and and know that he have to either kill belen and her mother and and set himself free and or kill himself . at all point of the movie and the character of lorenzo fiction interact with and exist a real human being while we see their life change a lorenzo type away at his computer and but they be also free agent . this mean the film work at two layer . one can treat lorenzo passion and his infidelity and his child and the death and the sex and a real and and have a consistent interpretation . but true meaning come from the layer above and where we actually live within a writer mind and and see how event here coexist with and and be influence by and think that really happen to the writer . metaphor merges with reality and fiction becomes life and life find mean and resolve itself in fiction . the storm and dark secret in lorenzo fictional world be metaphor for his obsession and passion and conflict and the abyss that drag him deep and deep . he can not share these tension with lucia because he think he be too poison within . he have fall into a hole and he say and from where there be no escape . or not really and because he be still in touch with luna mother elena through anonymous internet chat . he have be tell her a story that give her two advantage represent one and that at the end of the story there a hole that lead one back to the middle of the story and and two and one can change one course any time . and we see luna have partly change her course and she be back on lorenzo island . but lorenzo be still far away from her and and and in a way and far away from lucia . will he be able to change the course of his life and will the hole he have fall into lead him back to the middle of the story . such a story have to involve lucia will lucia get back lorenzo . will there be a resolution . yes and there will and but lucia be and so far and only a reader and an admirer . she be perplex by lorenzo self absorbedness and this darkness and this hole and that she doesn not understand . so she leave him though she know she be still in love with him and and then her world shatters when she hear he be dead . in reality and lorenzo be in a coma and and will come back to life later and a her advantage play out . for the moment and however and lucia loss will make her cycle in lorenzo world and and when she move to lorenzo island and the island lorenzo would never take her to and she be really inside the hole he be in ( she fall into a real cave in the island and as well ) . she have to travel this world and meet the character of his fiction in real life and before she will see him again . but by then the fictional and real world will get united and by the time lucia and lorenzo come together at the end and the two parallel life of lorenzo have become one . united and resolve and like in sex . it be this journey of lucia to union and this tale of sex and lucia and that the film chronicle . there be another angle to the name and as well represent sex and writing be both about creation . the world lorenzo create pull him in like sex do ( into a hole and in both case . ) . like sex and there be the potential for obsession and and like the man he write about and he be torment by the tension between the two woman and two world that he have create . upto this this be all lorenzo . but a the movie progress and lucia find herself in a house with a man and another woman and sexual tension build up between them . her course change . it because she be on that island that elena get to meet lorenzo and and she really reunite lorenzo and the mother of his child and resolve their story . and isn not that child really lucia love and in a way . the book that conceive luna also make lucia fall in love with lorenzo and the shot of their first union cut into luna birth and they both drop into a hole together and and at the end and when elena tell lucia that she be a gift to the earth and she look as happy a she would if she get back her lost child . the child who lorenzo do not trust with the secret and but who would have keep it if he tell her . finally she reach the heart of that secret and the secret of her birth and her lover and through a journey of her own and hence sex and lucia . the little detail matter . the dog that kill luna also feature in a shot on a television screen at the coffeeshop where lucia pick lorenzo up . elena anonymous friend use a lighthouse a his icon while like a lighthouse and he show her how to change her course and they meet for the second time in front of the island lighthouse . the music and the visuals of the island and the underwater shot be magnificent . the metaphor of the cave in the island work very well . each death punctuate the end of one phase and the beginning of another and almost like a chapter end . and the end isn not just an end and it a second chance and a resurrection and an advantage . we see carlos and belen mom lover and and subsequently and elena guest and disappear into a hole and we find that belen and his mom have be declare miss . maybe they have drop into a hole as well and wait to pop up somewhere else and wait to change the course of their life . those be different story and different journey . the acting be very good . paz vega and in particular and be brilliant a lucia . all through the movie and sex be portray without guilt and prissiness and but it be never affect or gratuitous . i feel extremely upset the way so many american reviewer seem to be more preoccupied with the sex depict in the movie than the movie itself . oh and i adore this film .