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...Tres Marias, Clara gives birth to a daughter, Blanca, who is Raised with all luxury befitting a legitimate child in the now powerfully conservative Trueba family. Esteban has also fathered an illegitimate child, the son of the peasant worker (Sarita Choudhury) he raped on his estate. This illegitimate son is destined to grow up and terrorize the Trueba family...
After Rosa's death. Clara retreats into silence from the shock, emerging from her personal dream world 20 years later to marry Esteban herself and begin her life as matriarch of the Trueba family. the grown Clara (Meryl Streep) and much older Esteban (Jeremy Irons with another layer of make-up) move to Tres Marias, a restored country estate, where they are joined by Esteban's mysterious spinster sister, Ferula (Glenn Close...
Ferula, who has moved to Tres Marias at Clara's insistence, hovers over her distracted sister-in-law, attending to practicalities when Clara and Ferula wrapped up in her psychic powers. Clara and Ferula become the best of friends while Esteban, suspicious of a romantic relationship between the two to them, grows insanely jealous of this competition for his wife's attention...
With a blank gaze in her eyes and a ghostly expression, Meryl Streep, who studied psychics for her role as Clara is a spiritual but uninspired clairvoyant. Glenn Close is slightly more intriguing as Ferula, Esteban's repressed older sister, whose relationships with Clara develops lesbian undertones...
Jeremy Irons as Esteban, the patriarch of the Trueba family, ages from 20 to 70 over the course of the film. His acting improves in the film's second half, as his character grows from that of an impressionable young man in love to a domineering landowner and father...