(英文簡介引自互聯網) Based on the best-selling novel by María Dueñas, "The Time in Between". The novel is the latest literary phenomenon produced in Spain, it has been translated into over 25 languages and has sold some three million copies with over 37 editions.This book has won numerous awards and aroused great interest on the international scene, accumulating sales in over 75 countries around the world.
The series tells the story of Sira, a dressmaker wholeaves behind the convulsed Madrid before the outbreak of the Civil War to follow the man she loves to Tangier, where she unwittingly becomes involved in an espionage scheme.
Between Love and Duty... With England, Germany and other major world powers about to hurl themselves into the terrible conflict of the Second World War, Sira is persuaded to return to Madrid, where she assumes a new identity and embarks upon the most perilous undertaking of her life. As the favorite seamstress of her enthusiastic customers, many of them wives of Nazi officials, Sira becomes embroiled in the hidden world of espionage and political conspiracy, a world full of love, intrigue and betrayal.
Between War and Peace... With the Spanish Civil War about to break out in Madrid, Sira leaves her mother and her finacé and follows her handsome lover to Morocco on a whim. However, soon she too finds herself abandoned, broke and desolate in an exotic country. Among the motley group of European expatriates trapped in Morocco due to the worsening political situation in Europe, Sira reinvents herself by resorting to the only talent that can save her: her gift for creating beautiful garments.
Between Youth and Maturity... At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the floors at the sewing workshop where here (single) mother works as a seamstress. At age fourteen, she smoothly transitions into her own apprenticeship. By the time she is in her twenties, she has already learned the trade and is engaged to be married to a modest civil servant. But everything changes when two charismatic men unexpectedly barge into her carefully planned life: an attractive salesman and the father she had never known.
英文:The Time in Between(介於兩者之間的時間),書中描繪了一個在動盪的時代中倖存下來的以縫紉裁剪為生的女性希拉。這是一部西班牙暢銷小說,被翻譯成全球25種語言,並且改編為電視連續劇。時間定位第二次世界大戰。希拉的命運越來越和歐洲各國的戰略和時代政治人物的影響秘密相關。舞台的背景是從西班牙內戰擴大到摩洛哥以及葡萄牙,因此,所有異國風光都是在摩洛哥丹吉爾拍攝。西班牙,摩洛哥和葡萄牙的街道和建築物充滿着異國情調,更給予影片迷人的色彩和異樣的背景。故事情節緊扣,獨特的異域風光也給人印象深刻,二者相輔相成,使劇情更加撲朔迷離。