The Ministers Wife

Rafael a young man from the provinces works as a waiter in a resort and helps himself economically having sex for money with rich older women During a bomb threat he is discovered in bed with one of the guest Leonor Marchioness of Montenegro and he is fired as a consequence The Marchioness of Montenegro is an aging aristocrat ruined economically but still with wealthy and influential friends She helps Rafael finds a new job in Madrid as the gardener in the mansion of Antonio Fernández Herrador Minister of economy in the new democratic Spanish government