Mediaset España is preparing the miniseries 'What their eyes were hiding', based on the novel of the same name by Nieves Herrero

In collaboration with MOD Producciones, it will bring to the small screen the story of the forbidden love between the Marchioness of Llanzol and Serrano Súñer.

Mediaset Spain will produce the miniseries What their eyes were hiding, a project in collaboration with MOD Producciones in which Elena Medina (Stolen children, Mario Conde: the days of glory, 23-F) will adapt the historical novel of the same name by Nieves Herrero.

Mod Producciones is a film and television production company founded in 2007 by Fernando Bovaira, who has been at the helm of some of the most successful titles in Spanish cinematography, such as Ágora, The Sea Inside, The Others, Mortadelo and Filemón, Lucía and Sex o The language of butterflies. Among his most recent productions are Zipi and Zape and the Marble Club y Cannibal. Currently preparing Regression, Alejandro Amenábar's sixth film, starring Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson. For television he has produced the miniseries Stolen children and the series Crematorium.

The plot of the miniseries focuses on Spain in 1940. The war has been over for more than a year and aristocrats and new leaders of the regime are eager to have fun and show off their best clothes, oblivious to the hardships of the rest of the Spaniards. One woman stands out above all: tall, blonde and wearing a dress by her couturier and friend Balenciaga, her beauty is unrivaled; is Sonsoles de Icaza, wife of the Marquis of Llanzol. Suddenly, his gaze meets that of the man of the moment, the brand new Minister of Foreign Affairs Ramón Serrano Súñer, Franco's brother-in-law. As a result of this relationship, a girl was born, Carmen Díez de Rivera, a figure of enormous importance 30 years later during the Transition. Although her father never legally recognized her, the scandal was such that he was removed from the Government forever and both families hid the matter as if it had never existed.