Matador is a film about obsessions. A black comedy, the story focuses on the darker sides of human nature by following closely the morbid excesses of its three main characters. Almodóvar connects the lives of an injured matador, an aggressive lawyer, and a young religious zealot while playfully examining issues of repression and religion, death and obsession. Almodóvar’s psycho-sexual morality play strikes deep at the social soul of post-Franco Spain.