Sira Quiroga is a young dressmaker who left Madrid months before the 1936 coup to go with Ramiro, a man she barely knew, but with whom she had fallen madly in love, and for whom she abandoned her boyfriend and left her alone. his mother. Together they settle in Tangier and begin to establish social relationships. At the beginning of your stay in the city everything is going great. But Sira's life takes an unexpected turn: she is forced to move to Tetouan , at that time capital of the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco , and found there a select haute couture workshop , financed in a murky and illegal way. Characters as relevant as Juan Luis Beigbeder will pass through said workshop, Minister of Foreign Affairs during the first stage of the Franco regime , his lover, Rosalinda Fox, with whom Sira would establish a friendship, or the head of British intelligence in Spain during World War II , Alan Hug Hillgarth .