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“It’s the story of a Spanish woman called Berta Isla, who as a student during Franco’s dictatorship in the late 60s, early 70s, meets and falls in love with another student, a man called Tomás Nevinson. He’s half-English, half-Spanish—with a Spanish first name and an English last name. Tomás goes off to Oxford and gets recruited to be a spy. All he wants to do is go back to Madrid, live with Berta and have a good life, but he’s trapped into becoming part of the British secret services and has to live a double life. It’s about a couple living this double life.” Read more...