Megan Montaner is ridiculously beautiful in this, but there is more here

I'm glad I can understand spanish, for Spanish television, so often mediocre at best, is finally throwing us up some treats. To be sure gripping series such as Bajo Sospecho and Vis a Vis have fairly direct inspiration, putting it lightly, from Anglo-Saxon dramas such as "Broadchurch" and "Orange is the New Black", and it wouldnt take a genius to trace the connections between "Revenge" and "Sin Identidad", but tht shouldnt take anything away from the quality of the spanish offerings.
One should rather consider that all stories draw from just a few archetypes. Sin Identidad (translated as "no identity") draws on a number of them. Clearly there is the revenge archetype, but there is also a "rebirth" and perhaps an inverse Elektra complex conflict between mother(Luisa) and daughter(Maria). What makes sin identidad most interesting is the fact that it focuses on family. Family is important everywhere, but in catholic mediteranean countries it takes on a special importance.
The first part of the first episode, after the chinese prologue is over is a wonderful study of a modern happy and well off spanish family. You have got to realise that the "old world" still resonates class, and the upper class spanish really have it. They know how to eat, they know how to dress and they look beautiful. Terrible snobs, often hypocritical and surrounded by nepotism and rampant corruption. In the middle of this is Maria, a well meaning 27year old lawyer and daughter of a supreme court judge, standing by herself at a cocktail party and looking shyly into a swimming pool - and unknowingly on the verge of a tragedy and catastrophe.
Like an innocent virgin in a ancient myth, who merely wants to find out the truth, her actions will destroy her life and threaten to turn her into a medusa.