The novel “Ghosts of Goya” is one of the brightest events in French literature in 2007. Its authors are Oscar-winning director Milos Forman and famous screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere. The deliberately dispassionate style of the narrative perfectly conveys the atmosphere of Spain in the 18th century. The beautiful Ines, the muse and model of the great painter Francisco Goya, is accused of heresy. The terrible glory of the Inquisition has long faded, but the church is trying with all its might to prove that its time has not passed. Will the artist be able to save the woman whose beauty helped him win the love of the authorities and the crowd? Is it worth going against the system for the sake of an ordinary woman? Does the Artist have the moral right to risk his gift? The story of Francisco Goya, Ines, the monk-inquisitor Lorenzo, turned from the light hand of the authors into a large-scale canvas that absorbed everything that permeates the work of the great painter - the tragedy of Spain, the tragedy of the artist, the tragedy of man in the face of eternity, because as Forman himself says: “The most important thing is history, not a specific biography.”