The daughter of a working class single mother, Sira Quiroga learns the trade of seamstress from a very young age. Her passion for the wrong man drives her to foolishly embark upon a journey from 1930’s Spain to Morocco. In order to survive, the young woman has no choice but to get ahead doing the only thing she knows how to do: sewing. After she has finally opened her own business in Tetouan, her life takes an unexpected turn and she ends up collaborating with the British intelligence service during WWII.

Based on the novel by María Dueñas “El Tiempo Entre Costuras”