Produced by RTVE in collaboration with Diagonal TV [es] and created by Virginia Yagüe and Jordi Frades, the first season aired on La 1 in 2011.
[1] The members of the lower class "Prado" family work as rangers of the large estate owned by the De la Torre,[1] showing feelings of submission towards their employers conflicted by their endorsement to the promises of agrarian reform brought by the Republic.
[1] The extremes of the ideological polarization in play are represented by characters such as Hugo de Viana (Raul Peña), a military officer opposing the Republic and Encarna (Lucía Jiménez), a strong Socialist woman.
[2] The series features a number of characters from La señora such as Encarna, Ventura and Hugo de Viana, played by the same performers.
[12] Slated to air in 2012, the second season of the series was shelved indefinitely because of the arrival of Mariano Rajoy and the PP to government, as they preferred to bury a fiction set in the Republican period.