La dama velata

La dama velata is a 2015 Italian-Spanish mysterydrama television miniseries directed by Carmine Elia. It was produced by Rai Fiction, Lux Vide and Telecinco Cinema, with a budget of about 10 million euros. It is set in Trentino, in the late nineteenth century. In Italy, the series was broadcast on Rai 1 and Rai 1 HD from March 17 to April 16, 2015.

Plot

Clara, a splendid young woman belonging to the noble Grandi family, is raised by the peasants of the San Leonardo estate where she was born. She grew up free from society and established a very intimate relationship with Matteo, an orphan raised with her by the Staineri spouses. Years later, Count Vittorio Grandi, the young woman's father, forces her to return to Trento where the destiny of spending her life with a man imposed upon her awaits her. Count Guido Fossà, a womanizer in debt from head to toe, is the man chosen for her and, although not easy and not at all obvious, love is born between the two. The same love that turned Clara into a woman risks making her unhappy forever, in a context of secrets and plots against her life. The darkness that has entered her life endangers her, eventually making her mentally ill. Clara is locked up in the city mental health institution for hysteria, but manages to escape. Someone pushes her into the waters of the Adige, leaving her to drown and staging a suicide.

Believed to be suicidal by all, Clara is saved by the nuns of the convent of the estate and after recovering she assumes the identity of a Swiss noblewoman. With her face hidden by a black veil she manages to return to her home as a piano teacher to her daughter, Aurora. In this way she is able to reveal the secrets that have loomed over her since the night her mother died giving her life and to protect her daughter.