It stars Juan Luis Galiardo and Carlos Iglesias respectively as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, alongside Santiago Ramos, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Manuel Manquiña, Kiti Manver, Manuel Alexandre, Juan Diego Botto and Emma Suárez.

The plot, an adaptation of Don Quixote's part II, selects specific chapters of the novel, primarily underpinning as main narrative lines both the Don Quixote's adventures seeking to disenchant the spell put on Dulcinea and his family's attempts to return him home,[2] with the backdrop of the threat posed by the Turk's fleet.

[3] An adaptation of the part II of Don Quixote, the screenplay was penned by the director Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón.

[11] Gutiérrez Aragón had already directed, and co-wrote alongside Camilo José Cela, El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes, a television series adapting Don Quixote's part I in 1991, starring Fernando Rey.

[3] It was shot in locations of Castilla–La Mancha, Andalusia and the Madrid region, primarily in the Valle de Alcudia [es],[14] province of Ciudad Real.