Amar en tiempos revueltos
Amar en Tiempos Revueltos (“Love in Difficult Times”) is a soap opera set in the years of the Spanish civil war and Franco dictatorship. While that is a feat in itself – setting a story a couple decades ago and making it believable – tackling a story of friendship and love between two women in those times is something to be commended for.
The show is currently in its fifth season and has been featuring the developing relationship between Ana (Marina San José) and Teresa (Carlota Olcina) since their initial meeting at the end of the third season (the years 1948 through 1950).
The story begins when the two literally bump into each other at the Rivas Department Stores. Ana is pushing a clothing rack while Teresa isn’t paying attention to where she is walking.
Having just come back from a bad meeting with José María (the chief of staff of the Rivas Department Stores where Teresa applied for a job), she starts crying when she notices that on top of the bad meeting, her new skirt is torn after she bumped into Ana and fell on the floor.
Ana, of course, is immediately apologetic and wants to fix the dress or buy her a new one. Teresa tries to ward off Ana, but Ana is quite persistent and literally drops to her knees to make things okay (while fixing the skirt).
The girls take a walk together while Teresa explains everything that happened in the meeting; in short – she got shot down because she is a woman.(Written by Chantal /alrightstill.net)
