'Reeds and Mud') is a Spanish limited television series adapting the novel of the same name by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.
The fiction is set in El Palmar, a village in La Albufera lagoon,[1] in fin-de-siècle Spain, in between the 19th and 20th centuries.
[2] The plot features the strife between fishers (the old) and rice farmers (the new) as backdrop.
[9] The series was shot in the northern hemisphere Autumn/Winter of 1977 in the same location the fiction takes place, in La Albufera and El Palmar.
[10][1] Adapted to screen by Manuel Mur Oti, the episodes were directed by Rafael Romero Marchent.