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- La Regenta is a realist novel by Spanish author Leopoldo Alas y Ureña, also known as Clarín, published in 1884 and 1885.
- Madrid, 1947. In an isolated Spain during the years after World War II, Luisa, the attractive widow of Captain Estrada, refuses to live according to the social norms that repressed and subjected women. She, on the other hand, is a temperamental woman of liberal ideals who lives her love life as she pleases. One day, she receives the visit of the handsome captain Javier Zaldívar, who has just returned to Madrid after spending some time in the Spanish Sahara. Old friend of her husband, although always in love with her, Javier will not hesitate to court Luisa now that she is a widow. So she lets herself be loved and both initiate a torrid relationship.
- On the day he learns he has a year to live, a Spanish Cardinal who has lived in the Vatican for 30 years learns he has a granddaughter, born without a father to his own illegitimate daughter. Against the Pope's advice, he returns home to sort out his worldly affairs, including a vineyard that supplies the Vatican. He must find a way to influence his brother, an atheistic physician and a bachelor, his imperious mother, his former lover (now married and raising his granddaughter), her husband, and his daughter, a stylish prostitute. He plans to marry his daughter to his brother, legitimize his grandchild, and leave the land within the family. But life gets in the way.