Lo que escondían sus ojos

Lo que escondían sus ojos is a Spanish romance television miniseries directed by Salvador Calvo adapting the novel of the same name by Nieves Herrero, which focuses on the adulterous love story between Sonsoles Icaza and Ramón Serrano Suñer.

While successful in terms of audience, the miniseries, with limited historical rigor, was decried as a banalization of the Francoist regime and the figure of Serrano Suñer in particular.

Set in between Madrid and San Sebastián,[6] the plot concerns the adulterous love story between Ramón Serrano Suñer (Rubén Cortada) —Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Francoist regime, married to Zita Polo (Loreto Mauleón), and co-brother-in law of Francisco Franco (Javier Gutiérrez)— and Sonsoles de Icaza (Blanca Suárez) —the Marquise of Llanzol, married to the older Francisco de Paula Díez de Rivera (Emilio Gutiérrez Caba)—,[7][n. 1] after they meet in 1942 in a gala at the Hotel Ritz.

[7] Produced by MOD Producciones (a subsidiary of Mediaset España)[5][12] and scripted by Helena Medina, the miniseries was directed by Salvador Calvo.

[15] Lo que escondían sus ojos was decried as a banalization of the Francoist dictatorship and the figure of Serrano Suñer in particular, then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Franco's right-hand (he was known at the height of his power as Ministro Presidente, "Minister-President") and a prominent Philo-Nazi figure within the regime: his actions include the elaboration of the legislation enabling the seizure of information that allowed for the imprisonment and killing of thousands of former members of parties, trade unions and Republican associations and a deal reached with Heinrich Himmler on Gestapo–Spanish police collaboration to repatriate Republican exiles, none of which is palpably dealt with in the fiction.