Build a movie plot around this: What does Ines Show him while he is on the scaffolding? The baby she thinks is their daughter.
This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. (August 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)In 1792, Spain reels amid the turmoil and upheaval of the French Revolution. Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgard) is a renowned painter, who, among others, does portraits for the royal family as the Official Court Painter to the King and Queen.The Spanish Inquisition is disturbed by part of Goya's work. Brother Lorenzo Casamares (Javier Bardem) is hiring Goya to paint a portrait and defends him, saying that his works are not evil, they just show evil. He recommends the Church step up the fight against anti-Catholic practices. He requests and is put in charge of intensifying the Inquisition.When posing in Goya's studio, Lorenzo asks Goya about a young model he uses, Ines (Natalie Portman), daughter of a rich merchant, Tomas Bilbatua (Jose Luis Gomez) who also has a son named Angel (Unax Ugalde). Ines is spotted by Inquisition spies (trained by Lorenzo) declining a dish of pork in a tavern. The Holy Office of the Inquisition orders Ines to come to the office. There she is arrested and accused of "judaizing", i.e. spreading Jewish rituals, because she did not eat pork the other evening. She is stripped naked and tortured by strappado ("put to The Question"), confesses, and is imprisoned. Naturally, the Inquisition's archives had already revealed that one of her father's ancestors had converted from Judaism to Christianity in 1624 upon arrival in Spain from Amsterdam.Tomas begs Goya for help, who in turn asks Lorenzo to find out about Ines's situation. Lorenzo visits Ines in prison telling her that he is going to help her and will pass a message to her family if she wishes. He offers to pray with Ines, but is clearly struggling with his desire to rape her as she prays in the nude with him at his request. At a dinner in Tomas's home, where he and Goya are guests, Lorenzo defends "The...