This is the story of the late eighteenth-century adventures of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from Lisbon to London, from Parma to Venice. Always followed in the shadows, for reasons we don't know, by a suspicious-looking Calabrian and a disturbing cardinal, they prompt us to explore the dark intrigues of the Vatican, the pangs of a fatal passion, a gruesome duel, banter at the court of Versailles and the convulsions of the French Revolution.
Valeria Sarmiento began her career in 1972 with a documentary, Un sueño como de colores, a genre to which she has dedicated a large part of her work. With her feature debut, Notre mariage (1984), she won the Donostia Grand Prix for New Filmmakers at the San Sebastian Festival, going on to participate in its Official Selection in 1995 with Elle and to sit on its Official Jury in 1998. In 1990 she competed in Berlin with Amelia Lopes O’Neill, later directing L’inconnu de Strasbourg (1998), Rosa la China (2002) and Secretos (2008). In 2012 she presented the miniseries As Linhas de Torres in Zabaltegi.