The backstage of diplomatic glamour.
The Posadas family moves to Spain when the father is appointed as ambassador. Luis Posadas gives his credentials to a very old Franco, while Bimba, the mother, tries to adapt to the culinary tastes of the Spaniards with a very limited budget, preparing dishes like the fake lobster pie. Throughout the story, Bimba manages, with humour and wit, to get an embassy off the ground without a budget. Carmen, already a teenager, goes through hes first romance and her first heartbreak with a young rebellious student that distributes political pamphlets in secret. The family spends every summer in Mabella, which is in its Golden years. The Posadas’ stay in Spain ends with the wedding of Carmen Martinez Bordiú and the Duke of Cádiz, apotheosis and the beginning of the end of the Franco regime.
In Russia, the Posadas get used to the eternal parades at the Red Square, to the dances at the Kremlin only for women, and to having to turn to the black market to get food. They will get to meet President Nixon, and Dolores will have a bad experience at a Russian hospital, from which she will have to run away in the middle of the winter waring a housecoat.
Already in England, the country of protocol and tradition, Bimba has to take a quick course on how to behave in the presence of the Queen. They meet Lady Di, Margaret Thatcher and Prince Charles, whose jokes put them in difficult situations regarding protocol.
Carmen gets divorced and goes to the embassy to live with her daughters together with Dolores, who is now a punk. Bimba, Luis and Dolores are invited to spend a weekend in the palace of a couple of very important dukes, but they find out that the intention of the family is for Dolores to marry their eccentric and unattractive heir.
Finally, Dolores marries her Spanish boyfriend, but she forgets to hire the waiters, so that it will be her friends, including Miguel Bosé and James Hunt, who will replace them.
RELEVANT INFORMATION: Hoy caviar, mañana sardinas (Caviar Today, Sardines Tomorrow) tells the true story of the contretemps of the family of the awarded author of bestsellers Carmen Posadas. The worldwide known characters that appear in the novel, like Queen Elizabeth II, Breznev or Nixon, allows the novel to put the reader in different situations in each chapter, all of them full of humour. This, at the same time, facilitates the adaptation of the novel to an audiovisual format. A mix of memoir, diary, travel book and cookbook, Hoy caviar, mañana sardinas (Caviar Today, Sardines Tomorrow) has been awarded with the Premio Sent Soví de literatura gastronómica. Besides, it has been published in Spain and France.
Carmen Posadas has been awarded with several important recognitions throughout her career. Some are the Planeta Award, the Ministerio de Cultura Award, the Apeles Mentres Award, the Premio de Cultura de la Comunidad de Madrid, the ABC Award, the Premio Cartagena de Novela Histórica, the Glaukan Award, the Brazier Award and the Premio Iberoamericano Periodismo Rey de España. In 2003 the magazine Newsweek described Posadas as one of the most relevant authors of her generation. Her works have been praised by both the readers and the press, and they have been translated to more than 23 languages. She has also been praised by newspapers like The New York Times and The Washington Post.
AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: In development as a TV Series.
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES: Spanish, French.
