Englishman in Madrid

Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value an aristocrat''s collection. At a welcome lunch he encounters José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder and leader of the Falange, a nationalist party whose antics are bringing the country ever closer to civil war.

The paintings turn out to be worthless, but before Whitelands can leave for London the duque''s daughter Paquita ...