La Fortuna is about the battle over a sunken treasure. The antagonist is an evil American businessman who builds a company that searches for underwater treasure on expeditions that he personally leads and, when he is successful, has the gall to try to keep what he risked everything and spent millions to find! The protagonists are Spanish bureaucrats who spend all day lecturing people about their ideals until they find out about the find and embark on a quest to use legal technicalities to appropriate the treasure they didn't find or even look for from the man who committed everything to finding it. It's a socialist morality play in which the State destroys the capitalist, so if that's your thing, you'll like La Fortuna.
Almost as warped as the morality is the romance between the bureaucrats. For some reason, the 25 year old clean-cut, handsome male lead is hopelessly infatuated with his 40-year old chain-smoking, uncouth colleague, who spends most of the series insulting him for being boring and insufficiently progressive and ranting about how much she hates America, unceremoniously dumps him and then has a change of heart and pursues him until he inexplicably welcomes this foul-mouthed, aging harpy back into his life.
The plot itself, which should be interesting since it involves a multi-national lost treasure, is mostly a boring procedural about (likely inaccurate) maritime law. Most of the movie takes place not on the ocean or underwater, but in airports, courtrooms and motels.
Almost as warped as the morality is the romance between the bureaucrats. For some reason, the 25 year old clean-cut, handsome male lead is hopelessly infatuated with his 40-year old chain-smoking, uncouth colleague, who spends most of the series insulting him for being boring and insufficiently progressive and ranting about how much she hates America, unceremoniously dumps him and then has a change of heart and pursues him until he inexplicably welcomes this foul-mouthed, aging harpy back into his life.
The plot itself, which should be interesting since it involves a multi-national lost treasure, is mostly a boring procedural about (likely inaccurate) maritime law. Most of the movie takes place not on the ocean or underwater, but in airports, courtrooms and motels.