A Winter in Mallorca

The cigarsmoking French writer George Sand Lucia Bose and her lover the composerpianist Chopin Christopher Sandford have rented a former monastery in Mallorca as a winter retreat They have even shipped a piano to the site so that Chopin can continue his work However what promised to be a warm sunny vacation turns sour as the locals disapprove of Sand the servants are surly and mysterious and the monastery is cold She has her revenge however She wrote the book A Winter in Mallorca about her miserable winter retreat This film follows that book closely with concern for historical accuracy which did not increase the Spanish filmmakers popularity with their countrymen