“On June 20, 1973, General Juan Domingo Perón returns to Argentina after 18 years of exile. He is accompanied by his wife, José López Rega, a dark intriguer who came out of nowhere, and a large entourage. In Madrid, he leaves behind years of contempt for the Franco regime and the memory of a triumphant Eva Perón whose mummified corpse rests in his own home. With him, he carries some unfinished memories with which he wants to leave a Napoleonic vision of himself. More than 2 million people, the largest crowd ever assembled, await you at the airport. Meanwhile, his followers fight fiercely to seize the symbol that the old General still represents,” reads the synopsis of La novela de Perón, by the Argentine writer and journalist Tomás Eloy Martínez.

The book is full of action and characters from the Argentine history of the last century. In La novela de Perón, originally published in 1985, Tomás Eloy Martínez writes a fiction story based on his interviews with the former Argentine president. It one of the best sellers in the Latin American country.

The novel written by the 2002 Alfaguara Award winner will now be featured on the small screen thanks to a new adaptation, prepared by the Argentine production companies Zeppelin and Pampa Films. Both companies have already acquired the adaptation rights to the novel.

The series has the provisional name Juan Domingo, but the shooting and release date are still mysteries. 

The Argentinian film director Blas Eloy Martínez, son of Tomas Eloy Martínez, will be in charge of writing the script for the new series; while Lucas Jinkis, from the production company Zeppelin Studio and Agustín Bossi, from Pampa Films will be the producers.

This is not the first time that a work by Eloy Martínez has become a television series. The first was Santa Evita, considered an icon of the nonfiction genre that recounts the enigma surrounding the death (in 1952) of the former Argentine First Lady when she was only 33 years old.

"In 1955, the Argentine military overthrew then-President Juan Domingo Perón and hid Evita's body for 16 years, in order to prevent her from becoming a weapon against the regime," as described in its synopsis.

The book has given its name to an original Star+ Latin America production. The Santa Evita series reviews the life story of Argentine politician Eva Duarte de Perón and specifically narrates "the story of a body without a tomb and the legend that was born around it." The program stars the Uruguayan actress, singer and businesswoman Natalia Oreiro.