Eva Peron rose from illegitimate poverty to become the most powerful woman in Latin America, the champion of Argentina’s descamisados, and a figure so beloved and so hated that her embalmed body was stolen, hidden for sixteen years, and shipped across multiple countries before finally being returned to Buenos Aires in a zinc-lined coffin. Her afterlife was almost as dramatic as her life.

This episode traces Evita from her impoverished rural childhood through her acting career, her marriage to Juan Peron, the political movement she built among Argentina’s working poor, her death from cancer at thirty-three, and the bizarre two-decade odyssey of her corpse.

• Eva’s illegitimate birth, childhood poverty, and escape to Buenos Aires to become an actress
• The marriage to Juan Peron and the political movement she built among Argentina’s workers
• The Foundation, the descamisados, and the power she wielded from outside any official position
• Her death at thirty-three, the embalming, the body’s theft, and the sixteen-year odyssey across continents