Goya's Ghosts  

 Spain 1792- The Catholic Church is at the height of its powers. the revolution has sent neighbouring France into turnoil and the Spanish Church decides to restore order by bringing back the dreaded Inquisition. Spearheading this movement is the eningmatic and cunning priest Lorenzo, a man who seeks power above all. Lorenzo's friend is Francisco Goya, Spain's most famous artist and portraitist to kings and queens. When his beautiful model Ines is injustly imprisoned and tortured by the Inquisition their friendship is put to a test as Goya begs Lorenzo to spare the poor girl's life.
  Almost two decades later, just before the French armies invade Spain, Goya is a different man. Having lost his hearing entirely, he has become a dark disturbed man.
 Lorenzo, having been banished by the Spanish Church, fled to France, only to return in a new guise as chief prosecutor for Napoleon's regime. Now he can take revenge on the very men taht threw him out of Spain.
  When the French abolish the Inquisition, all its prisoners are set free. Ines, the once beautiful figure of Goya's paintings, emerges from prison not only having lost her youth but also to find her daughter. When Goya discovers Alicia, Ine's daughter, working as a prostitute, he confronts Lorenzo who finally admits having raped Ines and being the father of the child. But mother and daughter are still far from being reunited.
 Spain is once again thrown into chaos when Wellington's powerful army invades to restore Spanish rule.
 It is mayhem on the streets of Madrid and Goya continues his desperate struggle to reunite mother and daughter. Lorenzo will stop at nothing to save himself and keep secret the child that haunts him...