Manuel del Castillo

Madrid, late 19th century. A wealthy woman is found murdered in her home and her maid seems to be the main suspect; but her statement further entangles the case.

Filigrana is in the prime of his career. His dressing room is full of flowers and always the same fan: William Harrison who asks her to marry him. Watermark says he heard those same words in the mouth of another man, the Earl of Montepalma, player and womanizer who loved and yet humiliated by a gypsy.

A young bullfighter full of illusions triumphs in Mexico and decides to get married there and forget about his old Spanish girlfriend, who by then has just given birth to his son.

Eugenia de Montijo, an extraordinarily beautiful woman, educated and intelligent daughter of the Count of Montijo, decides to start a European tour when she discovers that the Duke of Alba, whom she believed her suitor, actually intends for her sister. In Paris she meets Napoleon III, the future emperor of France, who is bewitched by the beauty of the young aristocrat from Granada