Sira Quiroga is a young Spanish dressmaker engaged to a solid suitor when a suave typewriter salesman upends her life. Spain is being upended by a civil war and the new regime's growing alliances with Nazi Germany. Sira, smart, gutsy and resourceful with a Scarlett O'Hara-like ability to whip up designer duds on a moment's notice, Sira has spunk. Sira gains and loses a small fortune, is dumped by her cad of a lover in Morocco, runs guns to get the cash to start her life anew and becomes couturier to the Nazi wives stationed in Madrid. Urged on by her friend, the real-life British spy Rosalinda Fox, Sira, too, aids the British cause.
The peaks and the valleys. Find the essential episodes — and the ones to skip.
Sira tries to approach Da Silva's Spanish secretary to find out more about his business. This new alliance will be of great help to Sira, but it will also put her at great risk.
Panic-stricken Sira turns to Rosalinda to help her devise a plan to get an important message to Marcus and warn him of the danger he's in, but Marco is more concerned about Sira's safety than his own.
Sira is seamstress in Madrid. She meets Ingacio and they will marry each others. But then Sira meets Ramiro in the typewriter shop and she can't stop thinking about him.
Each point is an episode, plotted in order. Colored bands mark season boundaries. Look for the rise, the plateau, or the decline.
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