The screenplay for the film was written especially for Penélope Cruz and Victoria Abril by the award-winning Spanish writer and director Agustín Díaz Yanes of Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto.

Lola, who works as a nightclub singer in Heaven, is sent by her boss Marina on a mission to Earth to save the soul of a Spanish boxer called Manny.

Manny, as well as guilt over his breach with his mother, is regularly harassed by a couple of plainclothes heavies sent by a corrupt police chief he owes money to.

The website's critical consensus states: "More Hellish than it is Heavenly, Agustín Díaz Yanes' black comedy about the Earthly duel between two angels doesn't have enough genuine laughs to support its far-fetched premise".

[1] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 31 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

[2] The film was nominated for the Goya Awards in 2002 in the categories of Best Picture, Best Actress (Victoria Abril) and Best Supporting Actor (Gael García Bernal).