About this season
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.
Episodes (11)
1. Episode 1
Aired 21 October 2013 • 80 min
Sira Quiroga, a young seamstress pushed by fate into a risky compromise in which patterns and fabrics of her profession will become the facade of something much murkier and transcendent.
2. Episode 2
Aired 28 October 2013 • 80 min
Ramiro and Sira arrive in Tangier and discover an exotic world of luxury. Ramiro is always drunk and taking Sira’s money, and the two get in a fight.
3. Episode 3
Aired 4 November 2013 • 80 min
Commander Vázquez takes Sira to stay with Candelaria, an eccentric woman who’s had problems with the law. Sira won’t eat and stays in bed all day.
4. Episode 4
Aired 11 November 2013 • 80 min
Candelaria proposes Sira create an exclusive shop in a luxury building in Tétouan. No one shows up at first, until a German woman orders some dresses.
5. Episode 5
Aired 18 November 2013 • 80 min
Rosalinda needs a dress for tonight. Sira and Jamila work together to make a last-minute miracle. Sira finds out Rosalinda is with Lt. Col. Beigbeder.
6. Episode 6
Aired 25 November 2013 • 80 min
Rosalinda gets a reporter, Marcus Logan, to help her mother escape in exchange for an interview with Beigbeder. Marcus invites Sira to an elite event.
7. Episode 7
Aired 2 December 2013 • 80 min
Sira is developing an attraction towards Marcus. Rosalinda appears to be very ill, and when Sira visits she says it’s because her husband has arrived.
8. Episode 8
Aired 9 December 2013 • 80 min
Sira and Marcus decide to steal the debt documents of the husband of one of the shop’s customers. Then he’ll flee Tétouan and say goodbye to Sira.
9. Episode 9
Aired 16 December 2013 • 80 min
10. Episode 10
Aired 13 January 2014 • 80 min
Beigbeder tells Sira he’s been relieved of his duties for advising Franco not to ally with the Germans. He asks her to give Rosalinda some letters.
11. Episode 11
Aired 20 January 2014 • 80 min
Sira decides to help Paquita, but it won’t be easy. With all of the problems from her former life sorted out, she’s ready for a life of intrigue.