Produced by Televisión Española, it was directed and written by Fernando Méndez-Leite and starred by Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Héctor Alterio, Juan Luis Galiardo and Carmelo Gómez.

The story is set in Vetusta, a fictional provincial capital in northern Spain, where Ana Ozores marries the former prime judge of the city, Víctor Quintanar, a kind but fussy man much older than her.

To complete the circle, her confessor and canon in the cathedral of Vetusta, Don Fermín de Pas, also falls in love with her and becomes Mesía's unmentionable rival.

With a budget of 500 million pesetas, filming took place in Madrid and Oviedo under his direction for 84 days between April and July 1994.

[2] The series premiered on 17 January 1995 in prime-time on La Primera of Televisión Española and aired for three consecutive evenings averaging nearly six million viewers.