The series stars Emmanuel Restrepo and Francisca Estévez. The 13 episodes are named after a literary work or identifiable characters from different books. There are references to the literary works of Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Octavio Paz and Julio Cortázar.
Eva Lasting is set in 1976 in Bogotá, Colombia, complete with period fashion, vehicles, and the city's first bowling alley. Eva Samper is the first girl ever to attend an all-boys high school as a pioneer of co-ed public schooling in the city.