"A woman from New York high society is forced to escape with her mother and daughter to a charming Spanish wine town. There, she will have to get used to the eccentricities of her neighbors and confront the deepest secrets of her family, as well as a pair of incompetent hitmen." These lines mark the starting point of Land of Women, the new series by Ramón Campos premiering on Apple TV+.

Specifically, the fiction that adapts the novel of the same name written by Sandra Barneda, tells the story of how Gala Scott (Eva Longoria) joins her mother Julia (Carmen Maura) and her daughter Kate (Victoria Bazùa) to travel to their ancestral home in the region of Catalonia. However, the purpose of the trip will not be precisely to reconnect with their family roots. It seems that Gala has not been entirely truthful.

Once they arrive there, they begin to suspect that something is wrong and discover that the family house they thought they would stay in actually does not belong to the family. And also that Gala seems to have omitted some important details.

A few days before all this happened, Gala was calmly at home in New York, preparing for the opening of her wine business by buying three new dresses. On the other hand, Kate was at the boarding school where she lives, in Connecticut, and Julia was at the nursing home, where she has to deal with apparently selective memory problems.

This lifestyle they lead is made possible thanks to Gala's husband, Fred (James Purefoy), a businessman. Although it is soon discovered that everything is a cover when at Gala's party, a couple of intimidating men show up looking for her husband who apparently owes his boss 15 million dollars. After talking to him, Gala sells her jewels to be able to escape with her daughter and mother. Although they also hide a few secrets that will complicate things.

The origin of the series

The initial idea for the series arose when the executive producer and lead actress Eva Longoria approached Ramón Campos to talk to him about a possible collaboration. "I was a big fan of what he had done in Spain and I told him I would love to do something in Spanish and specifically in Spain," Eva Longoria recalled in statements collected in the press release.

"He said to me, 'There is a great book called 'Land of Women' by Sandra Barneda and I plan to adapt it'," she added, although it is also true that Campos had to make certain changes to adapt the story into a series. "Sandra gave us total freedom to adapt the novel", Campos shared. "She is very aware that a novel is not the same as a television series or a movie."

"When we wrote the first episodes, we had changed many things, but she realized that the spirit was in the scripts. The key was finding the theme for the series and that turned out to be identity. So we built the characters with the identities of these three women at the center," he continued.

"When I read the scripts, I found them very funny and telling a very beautiful story," Longoria expressed. "I loved it and it was in Spain, so I jumped right in. I love fish out of water stories and, like Gala, I love wine and consider myself an expert. But unlike me, Gala is a complete mess. She thinks she has her life under control, but most of it has been a lie."

*This article has been automatically translated using artificial intelligence