Alongside Anna Karenina, Emma Bovary, and Effi Briest, President Ana Ozores is one of the great female figures in literature: the best Spanish novel of the 19th century. (Mario Vargas Llosa) The beautiful young Ana Ozores is threatened with suffocation in the confines of a Spanish provincial capital as the wife of an already elderly court president. Life here is dominated on one hand by the church and on the other by the laws of the noble society, which would only allow Ana a semblance of flirtation and romance. Seduction approaches in the form of Don Álvaro Mesía, a man of sensual charisma. Events unfold rapidly - leading to a dramatic duel.