Mateo was exhausted. It had been a grueling semester of Spanish literature at the university, and all he wanted to do was relax in his apartment with a cup of tea and the classic Spanish film La Promesa . His professor had raved about it, calling it a masterpiece of emotional storytelling.
The subtitles for La Promesa employ a mix of foreignization (keeping the Spanish term) and domestication (finding an English equivalent). la promesa english subtitles
Jana saves the life of Manuel, the youngest son of the Marquises of Luján, after a plane crash, which allows her to infiltrate the palace as a maid. Mateo was exhausted